Byasa adamsoni

Byasa adamsoni
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Papilionidae
Genus:	Byasa
Species:	B. adamsoni
Binomial name
Byasa adamsoni (Grose-Smith, 1886) [1]
Synonyms
Papilio adamsoniGrose-Smith, 1886 Papilio (Byasa) minereoidesElwes & de Nicéville, [1887] Atrophaneura (Byasa) adamsoni(Grose-Smith, 1886)

Byasa adamsoni, or Adamson's rose, is a species of butterfly from the family Papilionidae that is found in Burma, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam. ^[2]

Etymology

It is named for the collector Captain Adamson R.E.

References

1. Häuser, Christoph L.; de Jong, Rienk; Lamas, Gerardo; Robbins, Robert K.; Smith, Campbell; Vane-Wright, Richard I. (28 July 2005). "Papilionidae – revised GloBIS/GART species checklist (2nd draft)". Entomological Data Information System. Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde Stuttgart, Germany. Archived from the original on 9 September 2010. Retrieved 21 June 2013.
2. Atrophaneura adamsoni adamsoni (Grose-Smith,1886)

• 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.
• Grose-Smith, H. (1886). Descriptions of four new Species of Butterflies from Burmah. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 18(5):149-151.

External links

• Samui Butterflies