Papilio erithonioides
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Papilio erithonioides is a butterfly from the family of the knightly butterflies (Papilionidae).
features
The moths reach a wingspan of 80 to 100 millimeters. The forewings are dark brown to black and are heavily pollinated with white scales in the basal region . In the submarginal region there is a series of white spots from the apex to the inner edge. In addition, after the upper third of the wing, seen from the outer edge, there is another row, much larger, white and misshapen spots through the post- disk region to the disk region and finally to the inner edge. On the rest of the wing there are few white spots of different sizes. The outer edge is white and dark brown to black piebald. The hind wings are also dark brown to black. The strongly corrugated outer edge is white and dark brown to black piebald and has no tail process. There are six broad, white moonspots between the submarginal and post-disk regions. The white, large, misshapen spots from the forewings merge into a band on the hind wing, which becomes steadily thinner towards the inner edge and includes a brown eye with blue and light brown color on the front edge. Another eye is in the anal angle. This is black, red, and blue. The basal region and the area between the moonspots and the bandage are dusted with white scales.
The underside of the forewings is very similar to the upper side, but is darker brown. The basal region is characterized by four longitudinal lines. All spots are much more pronounced. The underside of the hind wings is also very similar to the upper side, but all features are more pronounced and it is kept in a darker brown. The underside is no longer pollinated and the region around the body is characterized by a white area through which brown veins pierce. At the six moon spots there is now another yellow, blue, black and yellow row with spots. In the middle of the disk region there is a yellow-blue crescent moon spot on the band.
There are no gender differences in the wing pattern, both have the same wing markings and the same body, which is longitudinally striped black and yellow.
Similar species
Distribution and occurrence
The species is endemic to Madagascar . It lives there in thorn forests, deciduous forests and gallery forests and even penetrates into the edge areas of the rainforests.
Systematics
The species belongs to the subgenus Princeps Hübner, 1807, which is upgraded to the genus by some editors.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c butterflycorner.net: Papilio erithonioides (accessed on March 3, 2009)
- ↑ Evgueni V. Zakharov, Campbell R. Smith, David C. Lees, Alison Cameron, Richard I. Vane-Wright and Felix AH Sperling: Independent gene phylogenies and morphology demonstrate a Malagasy origin for a wide-ranging group of Swallowtail butterflies. Evolution, 58 (12): 2763-2782, Oxford 2004 ISSN 0014-3820 doi : 10.1554 / 04-293 .
- ↑ Australian Biological Resources Study - Australian Faunal Directory ( Memento of the original of September 26, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
literature
- N. Mark Collins, Michael G. Morris, and International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources: Threatened Swallowtail Butterflies of the World: The IUCN Red Data Book. IUCN, 1985, 401 pages, ISBN 2880326036