Bhutanitis lidderdalii

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Bhutanitis lidderdalii
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Bhutanitis lidderdalii

Systematics
Class : Insects (Insecta)
Order : Butterflies (Lepidoptera)
Family : Knight Butterfly (Papilionidae)
Subfamily : Parnassiinae
Genre : Bhutanitis
Type : Bhutanitis lidderdalii
Scientific name
Bhutanitis lidderdalii
Atkinson , 1873

Bhutanitis lidderdalii is a butterfly ( butterfly ) from the family of the knight butterfly (Papilionidae) that occursin Asia. The species was named after Robert Lidderdale, who served as a doctor in the Bengali Army . The butterfly described for the first time came from his butterfly collection.

description

butterfly

The moths reach a wingspan of 115 to 124 millimeters. Both sexes are colored identically. The forewings are elongated and black in base color. Eight thin white to yellow transverse lines run across the top of the forewings. The apex is strongly rounded. The hind wings are also colored black, crisscrossed by fine light lines and show a yellow area at the anal angle , which is limited by two to three blue eye spots. A bright red colored band extends from the inner edge to the cell . The drawing of the wing tops appears to be slightly faded to the wing undersides. From each hind wing three to four pointed tails of different lengths go off.

Similar species

Bhutanitis ludlowi has slightly wider wings and is generally paler in color. In Bhutanitis thaidina , the yellow area at the anal angle is only weakly developed and the tails are rounded at the end.

Distribution, subspecies and habitat

Aristolochia debilis , a food plant of caterpillars

The nominate form Bhutanitis lidderdalii lidderdalii occurs in India and Bhutan at the foot of the Himalayas . In southeast China the species is represented by the subspecies Bhutanitis lidderdalii spinosa . In Thailand the subspecies Bhutanitis lidderdalii ocellatomaculata is listed . In 1982, a large forest fire destroyed a large area in Chiang Mai including the caterpillar forage plants, destroying the habitat of Bhutanitis lidderdalii ocellatomaculata in Thailand, which was then added to the list of the newly extinct insects .

Bhutanitis lidderdalii primarily inhabits mountainous areas at altitudes between 1500 and 2500 meters.

Way of life

The moths fly mainly in the months of August to October. They like to visit different flowers to take in nectar. The caterpillars feed on the plant species Aristolochia griffithii , Aristolochia kaempferii , Aristolochia mandshuriensis , Aristolochia shimadai or Aristolochia debilis, which belong to the pipe flowers ( Aristolochia ) .

Danger

Due to the attractiveness of the color of the butterflies, many specimens were taken from nature by collectors and dealers. Since 1972, the species has been protected in India under Schedule II of the Wildlife (Protection) Act . Due to insufficient data, the species is not yet included in the Red List of Threatened Species of the World Conservation Organization IUCN . International trade in Bhutanitis lidderdalii is restricted according to the rules of the Washington Convention on Endangered Species .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ William Stephen Atkinson: Description of a new Genus and Species of Papilionidae from the South-eastern Himalayas , Proceedings of the general meetings for scientific business of the Zoological Society of London, Zoological Society of London, 1873, pp. 570-572
  2. ^ Charles Thomas Bingham: The Fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma. Butterflies. Vol. II, Taylor & Francis, London, 1907, pp. 3/4
  3. ↑ Bhutanitis ludlowi for comparison
  4. ↑ Markku Savela: Bhutanitis Atkinson, 1873 - distribution. In: Lepidoptera and some other life forms. Retrieved April 2, 2019 .
  5. ↑ siaminsectzoo.com/
  6. ↑ flight time
  7. ↑ Food plants

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