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Graphium glycerion

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Graphium glycerion
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Papilionidae
Genus: Graphium
Species:
G. glycerion
Binomial name
Graphium glycerion
(Gray, 1831)[1]
Synonyms
  • Papilio glycerion Gray, 1831[2]
  • Pazala glycerion Moore, 1888[3]
  • Papilio glycerion caschmirensis Rothschild, 1895
  • Pazala glycerion phangana Okano, 1986

Graphium glycerion, the spectacle swordtail, is a species of butterfly found in the Indomalayan realm (northern India, China, Thailand, Laos and northern Vietnam). The species was first described by George Robert Gray in 1831.

Subspecies

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  • G. g glycerion (Nepal, Sikkim, Assam)
  • G. g. caschmirensis (Rothschild, 1895) (north-western India)
  • G. g. kimurai Murayama, 1982 (northern Thailand)
  • G. g. phangana (Okano, 1986) (northern Thailand)

Taxonomy

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It may be a synonym of Graphium mandarinus Collins & Morris.[4] It is however treated as a "good species" by Koiwaya.[5] A further problem is that the name glycerion is permanently invalid as a junior primary homonym of Papilio glycerion Borkhausen, 1788.

Graphium glycerion is very little known and as with Graphium mandarinus, G. tamerlanus, G. phidias and G. olbrechtsi few specimens exist.

References

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  1. ^ Savela, Markku. "Graphium glycerion (Gray, 1831)". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved January 19, 2019.
  2. ^ Gray, George Robert (1831). "Descriptions of eight new species of Indian Butterflies, (Papilio, Lin.) from the collection of General Hardwicke". In Gray, John Edward (ed.). The Zoological Miscellany. London: Treuttei, Wurtz and Co. p. 32.
  3. ^ Hewitson, William C. & Moore, Frederic (1879). "Pazala, n. g.". Descriptions of New Indian Lepidopterous Insects: From the Collection of the Late Mr. W.S. Atkinson, M.A., F.L.S., &c. The Asiatic Society of Bengal. p. 283. OCLC 9625544 – via Internet Archive.
  4. ^ Collins, N. Mark; Morris, Michael G. (1985). Threatened Swallowtail Butterflies of the World: The IUCN Red Data Book. Gland & Cambridge: IUCN. ISBN 978-2-88032-603-6 – via Biodiversity Heritage Library.
  5. ^ Koiwaya, S. (1993) Descriptions of Three New Genera, Eleven New Species and Seven New Subspecies of Butterflies from China. Studies of Chinese Butterflies.
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