Byasa adamsoni

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{{Taxobox

| name = Adamson's rose

| status =

| image = Byasa adamsoni 431.png

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| regnum = Animalia

| phylum = Arthropoda

| classis = Insecta

| ordo = Lepidoptera

| familia = Papilionidae

| genus = Byasa

| species = B. adamsoni

| binomial = Byasa adamsoni{{cite web |url=http://www.insects-online.de/frames/papilio.htm |title=Papilionidae – revised GloBIS/GART species checklist (2nd draft) |author1=Häuser, Christoph L. |author2=de Jong, Rienk |author3=Lamas, Gerardo |author4=Robbins, Robert K. |author5=Smith, Campbell |author6=Vane-Wright, Richard I. |date=28 July 2005 |work=Entomological Data Information System |publisher=Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde Stuttgart, Germany |accessdate=21 June 2013 |archive-date=9 September 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100909141739/http://www.insects-online.de/frames/papilio.htm |url-status=dead }}

| binomial_authority = (Grose-Smith, 1886)

| synonyms =

  • Papilio adamsoni Grose-Smith, 1886
  • Papilio (Byasa) minereoides Elwes & de Nicéville, [1887]
  • Atrophaneura (Byasa) adamsoni (Grose-Smith, 1886)

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Byasa adamsoni, or Adamson's rose, is a species of butterfly from the family Papilionidae that is found in Burma, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam.[http://yutaka.it-n.jp/pap/10100001.html Atrophaneura adamsoni adamsoni (Grose-Smith,1886)]

Etymology

It is named for the collector Captain Adamson R.E.

References

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  • {{cite book|last1=Collins |first1=N. Mark |last2=Morris |first2=Michael G. |title=Threatened Swallowtail Butterflies of the World: The IUCN Red Data Book |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/98674#page/7/mode/1up |year=1985 |publisher=IUCN |location=Gland & Cambridge |isbn=978-2-88032-603-6 |via=Biodiversity Heritage Library}}
  • Grose-Smith, H. (1886). Descriptions of four new Species of Butterflies from Burmah. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 18(5):149-151.