Papilio aegeus

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Papilio aegeus
Papilio aegeus

Papilio aegeus

Systematics
Class : Insects (Insecta)
Order : Butterflies (Lepidoptera)
Family : Knight Butterfly (Papilionidae)
Subfamily : Papilioninae
Genre : Papilio
Type : Papilio aegeus
Scientific name
Papilio aegeus
( Donovan , 1805)
Female Papilio aegeus
Caterpillar in the last stage

Papilio aegeus , also known by the English name Orchard Swallowtail ( "Garden dovetail") is a butterfly from the family of the swallowtail butterfly (Papilionidae).

features

Male moth

The moths reach a wingspan of 100 to 120 millimeters. The forewings have a black basic color and have a series of about one centimeter large white spots, from the front edge to the outer edge, a few centimeters from the apex. The hind wings also have a black basic color, but apart from the submarginal region , almost the entire basal region , parts of the post-disk region and the inner edge, they are characterized by a white area, the outer edge of which is strongly serrated. There is a pale red eye in the anal corner. The outer edge has no tail process.

The underside of the forewings has a basic black color and, like the upper side, has a series of white spots in the same place. There are countless white scales between the apex and this row . The underside of the hind wings has a black basic color. In the post-fiscal region there are some blue crescent moon spots and above them yellow crescent moon spots. There are two orange, small spots in the anal corner.

The body is dark brown.

Female moth

The moths reach a wingspan of 100 to 120 millimeters. The forewings have a brown basic color and are characterized by a white area except for the basal region, through which, however, brown veins bore. The hind wings have a black basic color. In the disk region there is a white area around the diskoid transverse artery to the inner edge. There is a series of red arc spots in the submarginal region. In the post-fiscal region, there is another red spot on the inner edge and next to it three blue spots, which are increasingly fading. The outer edge has no tail process.

The undersides have the same wing drawings as the front wings and the hind wings.

The body is brown.

Egg, caterpillar and pupa

The females lay their 0.5 millimeter eggs individually on the underside of leaves of the Rutaceae (diamond family) or citrus plants . Experiments show that the females prefer artificial green rootstocks. Such experiments also proved that Papilio aegeus flies more frequently towards reflected light or light created by polarization.

Related species

Subspecies

Similar species

Distribution and occurrence

Papilio aegeus is found in New Zealand , New Guinea , Australia and on all islands in the Indian Ocean and the Pacific Ocean .

Papilio aegeus can often be found in its range and is therefore not considered endangered.

swell

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g butterflycorner.net: Papilio aegeus (accessed on April 24, 2009)
  2. ↑ Varjú, Dezsö: Polarized light in animal vision: polarization patterns in nature. Springer, 2004, ISBN 3-540-40457-0 , pp. 166ff.
  3. ↑ LM Schoonhoven, JJA van Loon, Marcel Dicke: Insect-plant biology. Oxford University Press, 2005, ISBN 0-19-852594-X , p. 146.
  4. ↑ ED Edwards, J. Newland, L. Regan: Lepidoptera: Hesperioidea, Papilionoidea. (= Australian Biological Resources Study). CSIRO Publishing, 2001, ISBN 0-643-06700-0 , p. 428.
  5. ↑ N. Mark Collins, Michael G. Morris: Threatened swallowtail butterflies of the world: the IUCN red data book. IUCN, 1985, ISBN 2-88032-603-6 , p. 103.

literature

  • ED Edwards, J. Newland, L. Regan: Lepidoptera: Hesperioidea, Papilionoidea. (= Australian Biological Resources Study). CSIRO Publishing, 2001, ISBN 0-643-06700-0 .
  • Dezsö Varjú: Polarized light in animal vision: polarization patterns in nature. Springer, 2004, ISBN 3-540-40457-0 .
  • N. Mark Collins, Michael G. Morris: Threatened swallowtail butterflies of the world: the IUCN red data book. IUCN, 1985, ISBN 2-88032-603-6 .
  • LM Schoonhoven, JJA van Loon, Marcel Dicke: Insect-plant biology. Oxford University Press, 2005, ISBN 0-19-852594-X .

Web links

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