Graphium aurivilliusi

Graphium aurivilliusi
Original description from Annales de la Société entomologique de Belgique (1897)
Conservation status
Data Deficient  (IUCN 2.3) [1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Papilionidae
Genus:	Graphium
Species:	G. aurivilliusi
Binomial name
Graphium aurivilliusi (Seeldrayers, 1896). [2] [3]
Synonyms
Papilio aurivilliusiSeeldrayers, 1896 Graphium auriger aurivilliusi; Hancock, 1993

Graphium aurivilliusi is a species of butterfly in the family Papilionidae (swallowtails). It is endemic to the Democratic Republic of the Congo. ^[4] It is only known from the type series of males.The type specimens is labelled "Congo" only. It may be a form of Graphium agamedes .

Description

The broad black marginal band of the hindwing is always ornamented with light spots. The wings have a common light median band, which does not reach the base of the hindwing and is interrupted in cellule 5 of the forewing. Hindwing beneath without black basal, dot in cellule 7 and consequently with only two such dots. Hindwing with 3—8 usually double sub¬ marginal spots. Markings white, slightly suffused with greenish; discal spots 1 a and 1 b of the forewing do not cover the base of these cellules; both wings with two small streak-like submarginal spots in each cellule; hindwing above with a single discal spot in each of cellules 2–4; the white basal spot of cellule 2 of the hindwing obliquely cut off distally and sharply defined; the cell of the forewing with 3—4 white longitudinal streaks opposite to cellule 3 and with a white costal marginal spot just before the apex.Congo region. ^[5]

Taxonomy

Graphium aurivilliusi belongs to a species group with 16 members. All are very similar The species group members are:

• Graphium abri Smith & Vane-Wright, 2001
• Graphium adamastor (Boisduval, 1836)
• Graphium agamedes (Westwood, 1842)
• Graphium almansor (Honrath, 1884)
• Graphium auriger (Butler, 1876)
• Graphium aurivilliusi(Seeldrayers, 1896)
• Graphium fulleri (Grose-Smith, 1883)
• Graphium hachei (Dewitz, 1881)
• Graphium kigoma Carcasson, 1964
• Graphium olbrechtsi Berger, 1950
• Graphium poggianus (Honrath, 1884)
• Graphium rileyi Berger, 1950
• Graphium schubotzi (Schultze, 1913)
• Graphium simoni (Aurivillius, 1899),
• Graphium ucalegon (Hewitson, 1865)[
• Graphium ucalegonides (Staudinger, 1884)

Images

External images from Royal Museum of Central Africa.

References

1. Gimenez Dixon, M. (1996). "Graphium aurivilliusi". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species . 1996 e.T9470A12991215. doi: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.1996.RLTS.T9470A12991215.en . Retrieved 17 November 2021.
2. Seeldrayers, E. 1896. Lepidopteres nouveaux du Congo. Annales de la Societe Entomologique de Belgique 40: 499-505.
3. Graphium, Site of Markku Savela
4. Afrotropical Butterflies: File C – Papilionidae - Tribe Leptocercini
5. Aurivillius, [P.O.]C. 1908-1924. In: Seitz, A. Die Großschmetterlinge der Erde Band 13: Abt. 2, Die exotischen Großschmetterlinge, Die afrikanischen Tagfalter, 1925, 613 Seiten, 80 Tafeln (The Macrolepidoptera of the World 13). Alfred Kernen Verlag, Stuttgart. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain .

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