Papilio bianor
| Chinese peacock | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Papilionidae |
| Genus: | Papilio |
| Species: | P. bianor |
| Binomial name | |
| Papilio bianor Cramer, 1777. | |
Papilio bianor, the Chinese peacock, is a middle to large size swallowtail butterfly from East Asia.
Size
- It has a wingspan of 45 to 80 mm.
- Summer type is usually larger than spring type.
Color
male
- Black with structural color.
- The male has black velvet hair in the fore-wing, however the female does not have.
- The female has red spot in the hind-wing.
Range
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Papilio Bianor in Japan
Entire Japan (from HokkaidÅ to Okinawa, izu), Taiwan, Korea, China, partly east Russia
Subspecies
- P. b. dehaanii (Mainland Japan)
- P. b. okinawensis (Yaeyama islands, Okinawa, Japan)
- P. b. ryukyuensis (Okinawa islands, Japan)
- P. b. amamiensis (Amami islands, Kagoshima, Japan)
- P. b. tokaraensis (Tokara islands, Kagoshima, Japan)
- P. b. hachijonis (Hachijo island, Izu islands, Japan)
- P. b. kotoensis Sonan, 1927 (Taiwan)
- P. b. thrasymedes Fruhstorfer 1909 (Taiwan)
Similar species
Habitat
Papilio bianor is common in the forest, is not so common in suburban and urban, because of their host plant habitation. However if there are some host plants such as Zanthoxylum ailanthoides, it can be seen even in the urban district.
Life cycle
Caterpillar
Caterpillar of Papilio bianor on Zanthoxylum ailanthoides
Host plants
The larvae of the species feed on plants such as :
- The Japanese Prickly-ash Zanthoxylum ailanthoides.
See also
- Papilionidae
- List of butterflies in Taiwan
References
- Nobuo MORIUE & Masayuki HAYASHI, The Handbook of Insects and their Host Plants, Bun-ichi Sougou Shuppan, 1/Apr/2007, ISBN 978-4-8299-0026-0
- S. Igarashi& H. Fukuda. 1997. The life histories of Asian butterflies vol. 1. Tokai University Press, Tokyo.
Other sources
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- Erich Bauer and Thomas Frankenbach, 1998 Schmetterlinge der Erde, Butterflies of the world Part I (1), Papilionidae Papilionidae I: Papilio, Subgenus Achillides, Bhutanitis, Teinopalpus. Edited by Erich Bauer and Thomas Frankenbach. Keltern : Goecke & Evers ; Canterbury : Hillside Books ISBN 9783931374624