Graphium latreillianus

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Graphium latreillianus
Graphium latreillianus.JPG
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Insecta
Order:
Lepidoptera
Family:
Papilionidae
Genus:
Graphium
Species:
G. latreillianus
Binomial name
Graphium latreillianus
(Godart, 1819)[1] [2]
Synonyms
  • Papilio latreillianus Godart, 1819
  • Graphium (Arisbe) latreillianus
  • Papilio latreillanus var. theorini Aurivillius, 1881
  • Papilio potamonianus Ehrmann, 1909
  • Papilio latreillianus theorini ab. infrapicta Strand, 1914
  • Papilio aurivillianus Avinoff, 1926
  • Graphium tynderaeus theorini f. xerophila Berger, 1950
  • Papilio latreillanus theorini ab. lutea Birket-Smith, 1960

Graphium latreillianus, the coppery swordtail, is a butterfly in the family Papilionidae. It is found in Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Nigeria, Cameroon, Sao Tome and Principe, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, the Republic of the Congo, Angola, the Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Chad, Uganda and Tanzania.[3] Its habitat consists of primary forests.

Males mud-puddle and are also attracted to urine-soaked sand, human perspiration and camp rubbish tips.

Subspecies[]

  • Graphium latreillianus latreillianus (Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana)
  • Graphium latreillianus theorini (Aurivillius, 1881)[4] (Nigeria, Cameroon, Sao Tome and Principe, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Angola, Central African Republic, Chad, western Uganda, Tanzania)

Taxonomy[]

It is a member of the tynderaeus -clade (Graphium tynderaeus, Graphium philonoe, Graphium latreillianus).

References[]

  1. ^ Godart, J.B. in Latreille , P.A., & Godart, J.B. [1819], [1824]. Encyclopedie Methodique Histoire Naturelle [Zoologie] 9 Entomologie: i-iv, 1-328 [1819], 329-828 [1824]. Paris.
  2. ^ Graphium, Site of Markku Savela
  3. ^ Afrotropical Butterflies: File C – Papilionidae - Tribe Leptocercini
  4. ^ Aurivillius, [P.O.]C. 1881. Om en Samling Fjärilar frän Gaboon. Entomologisk Tidskrift 2: 38-47.
  • Carcasson, R.H. 1960 "The Swallowtail Butterflies of East Africa (Lepidoptera, Papilionidae)". Journal of the East Africa Natural History Society pdf Key to East Africa members of the species group, diagnostic and other notes and figures. (Permission to host granted by The East Africa Natural History Society


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