Graphium chironides

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Graphium chironides
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Papilionidae
Genus: Graphium
Species: G.chironides
Binomial name
Graphium chironides
(Honrath, 1884)
Synonyms
  • Papilio chiron var. chironides Honrath, 1884
  • Papilio chiron Wallace, 1865
  • Graphium clanis chironicum Eliot, 1982
  • Papilio bathycles chiron f.vern. ligyra Jordan, 1909
  • Papilio clanis Jordan, 1909
  • Graphium clanis malayanum Eliot, 1982

Graphium chironides is a butterfly found in Nepal, northern India, central Burma, northern Laos, Vietnam, Cambodia, southern China and Peninsular Malaysia that belongs to the Swallowtail family.

Subspecies

  • G. c. chironides (southern Yunnan, Assam)
  • G. c. clanis (Jordan, 1909)
  • G. c. malayanum Eliot, 1982 (Malaysia)

Taxonomy

Synonym of Graphium chiron (Wallace, 1865). Formerly regarded as a subspecies of Graphium bathycles but raised to specific level by Saigusa et al.

References

  • Collins, N.M., Morris, M.G., IUCN ,1985 Threatened Swallowtail Butterflies of the World: the IUCN Red Data Book 1985 IUCN pdf
  • Saigusa,S.,Nakanishi, A., Shima,H. and Yata, O.(1977).Phylogeny and biogeography of the subgenus Graphium Scopoli. Acta Rhopalocera 1: 2-32.


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