Graphium glycerion

Graphium glycerion
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Papilionidae
Genus:	Graphium
Species:	G. glycerion
Binomial name
Graphium glycerion (Gray, 1831)[1]
Synonyms
Papilio glycerion Gray, 1831 Pazala glycerion glycerion Papilio glycerion caschmirensis Rothschild, 1895 Pazala glycerion phangana Okano, 1986

Graphium glycerion, the Spectacle Swordtail, is a species of butterfly found in the Indomalayan ecozone (North India - China, Thailand, Laos, North Vietnam).

Subspecies

• G. g glycerion (Nepal, Sikkim, Assam)
• G. g. caschmirensis (Rothschild, 1895) (north-western India)
• G. g. kimurai Murayama, 1982 (northern Thailand)
• G. g. phangana (Okano, 1986) (northern Thailand)

Taxonomy

May be a synonym of Graphium mandarinus.Collins & Morris.^[2] It is however treated as a "good species" by Koiwaya ^[3] A further problem is that the name glycerion is permanently invalid as a junior primary homonym of Papilio glycerion Borkhausen, 1788.

Graphium glycerion is very little known and as with Graphium mandarinus, G. tamerlanus, G. phidias and G. olbrechtsi few specimens exist.

References

1. Graphium, funet.fi
2. Collins, N.M. & Morris, M.G. (1985) Threatened Swallowtail Butterflies of the World. IUCN. ISBN 2-88032-603-6 pdf
3. Koiwaya, S. (1993) Descriptions of Three New Genera, Eleven New Species and Seven New Subspecies of Butterflies from China. Studies of Chinese Butterflies.

External links

• Butterfly corner Images from Naturhistorisches Museum Wien