Papilio desmondi

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Desmond's green-banded swallowtail
Papilio desmondi van Someren, 1939.JPG
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Papilionidae
Genus: Papilio
Species:
P. desmondi
Binomial name
Papilio desmondi
Synonyms
  • Papilio magdaeGifford, 1961
  • Papilio brontesGodman, 1885
  • Papilio teitavan Someren, 1960
  • Papilio brontes australisvan Someren, 1960

Papilio desmondi, the Desmond's green-banded swallowtail, is a butterfly of the family Papilionidae. It is found in Africa. [2]

Contents

The larvae feed on Vepris eugeniifolia , other Vepris species, Clausena , Zanthoxylum , Calodendrum , and Citrus species.

Subspecies

Description

The blue median band of the upper surface is somewhat narrower than in Papilio desmondi and the spot in the cell of the forewing reaches basad at most to vein 3.Forewing beneath with large yellowish submarginal spots in cellules 1 b—4. German and British East Africa. There are sharp nervular indentations at the margin of the blue band in the fore wing. [6]

Taxonomy

Papilio desmondi belongs to a clade called the nireus species group with 15 members. The pattern is black with green or blue bands and spots and the butterflies, although called swallowtails lack tails with the exception of Papilio charopus and Papilio hornimani. The clade members are:

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<i>Papilio hornimani</i> Species of butterfly

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<i>Druryia</i> Subgenus of insects

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References

  1. ↑ Papilio desmondi, Site of Markku Savela
  2. ↑ "Afrotropical Butterflies: File C – Papilionidae - Tribe Papilionini". Archived from the original on 2014-02-22. Retrieved 2012-05-09.
  3. ↑ Gifford, D. 1961. Notes on two Nyasaland Papilios (Lepidoptera: Papilionidae). Entomologist 94: 287-289.
  4. ↑ Van Someren, V.G.L. 1960. Systematic notes on the associated blue-banded black Papilios of the bromius-brontes-sosia complex of Kenya and Uganda, with descriptions of two new species. Boletim de Sociedade de Estudos (da Colonia) de Mocambique 29 (No. 123): 61-93.
  5. ↑ Koçak,A.Ö., 1983-1986, More notes on the homonymy of the specific names of Lepidoptera. Cent. ent. Stud., Priamus 2 (1983) (4)
  6. ↑ 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.PD-icon.svg This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain .


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