Graphium chironides

Graphium chironides

Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Papilionidae
Genus:	Graphium
Species:	*G.chironides*
Binomial name
*Graphium chironides* (Honrath, 1884)
Synonyms
Papilio chiron var. chironides Honrath, 1884 Papilio chiron Wallace, 1865 Graphium clanis chironicum Eliot, 1982 Papilio bathycles chiron f.vern. ligyra Jordan, 1909 Papilio clanis Jordan, 1909 Graphium clanis malayanum Eliot, 1982

Graphium chironides is a butterfly found in Nepal, northern India, central Burma, northern Laos, Vietnam, Cambodia, southern China and Peninsular Malaysia that belongs to the Swallowtail family.

Subspecies

G. c. chironides (southern Yunnan, Assam)
G. c. clanis (Jordan, 1909)
G. c. malayanum Eliot, 1982 (Malaysia)

Taxonomy

Synonym of Graphium chiron (Wallace, 1865). Formerly regarded as a subspecies of Graphium bathycles but raised to specific level by Saigusa et al.

References

Collins, N.M., Morris, M.G., IUCN, 1985 Threatened Swallowtail Butterflies of the World: the IUCN Red Data Book 1985 IUCN pdf
Saigusa,S.,Nakanishi, A., Shima,H. and Yata, O.(1977).Phylogeny and biogeography of the subgenus Graphium Scopoli. Acta Rhopalocera 1: 2-32.

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