Graphium illyris
| Graphium illyris | |
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| Graphium illyris - MHNT | |
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| Graphium illyris △ - MHNT | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Papilionidae |
| Genus: | Graphium |
| Species: | G. illyris |
| Binomial name | |
| Graphium illyris (Hewitson, 1873)[1] | |
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Graphium illyris, the Cream-banded Swordtail, is a forest butterfly of the Swallowtail (Papilionidae) family, native to the Afrotropic ecozone.
Congo forest
Habitat
Tropical and subtropical ecoregions.
Status and biology
It is an uncommon to rare species and is seasonal in West Africa (with adults on wing mainly in February and March). Males mud-puddle, and are attracted to rotten fish as well as perspiration on humans.[2]
Subspecies
- G. i. illyris (Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, C.Ghana)
- G. i. flavisparsus (Fruhstorfer, 1903) (Equatorial Guinea)
- G. i. girardeaui (Guilbot & Plantrou, 1978) (Central African Republic)
- G. i. hamatus (Joicey & Talbot, 1918) (Nigeria, Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Congo, Congo Republic, Tanzania)
References
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- ↑ Graphium, Site of Markku Savela
- ↑ Afrotropical Butterflies: File C – Papilionidae - Tribe Leptocercini
Sources
- Guilbot, R. and Plantrou, J. (1978). Note sur Graphium illyris (Hewitson) et revision systematique de I'espece. Bulletin de la Societe Entomologique de France 83: 68-73.
- Smith, C.R. & Vane-Wright, R.I. 2001 A review of the Afrotropical species of the genus Graphium (Lepidoptera: Rhopalocera:Papilionidae) Bull. Nat. Hist. Mus. Ent. Ser. 70 (2): 503-719