Pachliopta aristolochiae (Fabricius, 1775)

Taxonomy

class Insecta → subclass Pterygota → infraclass Neoptera → superorder Holometabola → order Lepidoptera → superfamily Papilionoidea → family Papilionidae → genus Pachliopta → species Pachliopta aristolochiae

Species name(s)

Pachliopta aristolochiae (Fabricius, 1775) = Papilio diphilus = Atrophaneura aristolochiae = Papilio adamas = Papilio asteris = Papilio aristolochiae Fabricius, 1775 = Papilio aristolochiae formosensis Rebel, 1906 = Tros aristolochiae = Pachlioptera aristolochiae = Papilio ascanius Linnaeus, 1768 = Papilio aristolochiae mamilius Fruhstorfer, 1908.

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Expansion

Zoogeographical regions

Indo-Malayan.

Detailed information with references

Synonyms and combinations

Papilio diphilus; Atrophaneura aristolochiae; Papilio adamas; Papilio asteris. [0]. Dmitriy Pozhogin.

Habitus and Differences from alike species

Wingspan 65-85 mm. UP is black, HW (hind - wing) with five elongate white spots surrounding the cell. Similar to P. adamsoni but submarginal spots are darker, reddish black. Female is larger and slightly paler than the male. HW of subsp. asteris is narrower than that of goniopeltis especially the white spots at beyond the cell and sometimes spot in space 5 may be absent. [144]. Svetlana Shchavelina.

Larva food plants

Растения рода Aristolochia (сем. Aristolochiaceae) и это подтверждает видовое название бабочки. [85]. Peter Khramov.

Subspecies Pachliopta aristolochiae

P. a. adaeus Rothschild, 1908.
P. a. adamas (Zinken, 1831).
P. a. antiphulus (Fruhstorfer, 1902).
P. a. antiphulus (Fruhstorfer, 1903).
P. a. antissa Jordan, 1908.
P. a. antissa (Jordan, 1908).
P. a. aristolochiae (Fabricius, 1775).
P. a. aristolochiae.
P. a. asteris (Rothschild, 1908).
P. a. austrosundanus (Rothschild, 1895).
P. a. austrosundanus (Rothschild, 1895).
P. a. balinus (Fruhstorfer, 1908).
P. a. balinus (Fruhstorfer, 1908).
P. a. camorta (Moore, 1877).
P. a. camorta (Moore, 1877).
P. a. ceylonica (Moore, 1881).
P. a. ceylonica (Moore, 1881).
P. a. floresianus (Rothschild, 1908).
P. a. floresianus (Rothschild, 1908).
P. a. goniopeltis (Rothschild, 1908).
P. a. interpositus Fruhstorfer, 1904.
P. a. interpositus (Fruhstorfer, 1904).
P. a. kondulana Evans, 1932.
P. a. kondulana (Evans, 1932).
P. a. lombockensis (Rothschild, 1896).
P. a. lombockensis (Rothschild, 1896).
P. a. mamilius (Fruhstorfer, 1908).
P. a. poseidippus (Fruhstorfer, 1911).
P. a. poseidippus (Fruhstorfer, 1911).
P. a. sapientia.
P. a. sawi Evans, 1932.
P. a. sawi (Evans, 1932).

Authors

Initial species uploading to the site: Peter Khramov.

Photos: Alex Dumchus.

Text data: Peter Khramov, Dmitriy Pozhogin, Svetlana Shchavelina.

Main characteristics formalization: Peter Khramov.

References

[85] Lepidoptera.ru (Insecta.pro previous version / cтарая версия Insecta.pro)
[144] Pisuth Ek-Amnuay "Butterflies of Thailand". 2nd Revised edition. Bangkok, 2012
Dmitriy Pozhogin, personal communication