Papilio rogeri

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Pink-spotted swallowtail
Papilio rogeri pharnaces Doubleday, 1846 Female.JPG
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Papilionidae
Genus: Papilio
Species:
P. rogeri
Binomial name
Papilio rogeri
Boisduval, 1836
Synonyms
  • Heraclides rogeri
  • Papilio pharnacesDoubleday, 1846
  • Papilio phanostratusGodman & Salvin, [1890]
  • Papilio polycharmusGodman & Salvin, [1890]
  • Priamides pharnaces
  • Heraclides pharnaces

Papilio rogeri, the pink-spotted swallowtail, is a butterfly of the family Papilionidae (swallowtails). It is found in central and southern Mexico. One stray has been reported from the lower Rio Grande Valley in Texas, United States.

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Description

Forewing lighter in color from the apex of the cell outwards, the dark basal area rounded distally; hindwing with suggestion of a small tail; some red spots on the disc, in two separate rows, in the male the proximal spots very small, usually only indicated; in the female all the spots larger than in the male. [1]

The wingspan is 84–95 mm.

Biology

Adults are on wing from February to October in Mexico and in April in southern Texas.

The larvae feed on Rutaceae species. Adults feed on flower nectar.

Subspecies

Taxonomy

Papilio rogeri is a member of the anchisiades species group

References

  1. Jordan, K.; in Seitz, A. (1907). The Macrolepidoptera of the World. 5: The Macrolepidoptera of the American faunistic region. Papilionidae 1-45