Graphium incerta

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Graphium incertus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Papilionidae
Genus: Graphium
Species: G. incertus
Binomial name
Graphium incertus
Bang-Haas, 1927

Graphium incertus is a butterfly found in China that belongs to the Swallowtail family.

Taxonomy

Originally described as a subspecies of Graphium tamerlana and later treated as conspecific with tamerlana. Studies of the genitalia by Chou and Koiwaya suggested it is a full species.

References

  • Collins, N.M., Morris, M.G., IUCN ,1985 Threatened Swallowtail Butterflies of the World: the IUCN Red Data Book 1985 IUCN pdf
  • Chou, I. (ed) 1994. Monographia Rhopalocerorum Sinensium (Monograph of Chinese Butterflies) [in Chinese]. Henan Scientific and Technological Publishing House, [Zhengzhou]; 2 vols., viii, 855 pp.
  • Koiwaya, S. 1993. Descriptions of Three New Genera, Eleven New Species and Seven new Subspecies of Butterflies from China. Studies of Chinese Butterflies, 2: 43-111.

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