Graphium aurivilliusi

{{Short description|Species of butterfly}}

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| image = Seeldrayers1896AnnSocEntBelge40Page500.jpg

| image_caption = Original description from Annales de la Société entomologique de Belgique (1897)

| status = DD

| status_system = IUCN2.3

| genus = Graphium (butterfly)

| species = aurivilliusi

| authority = (Seeldrayers, 1896).Seeldrayers, E. 1896. Lepidopteres nouveaux du Congo. Annales de la Societe Entomologique de Belgique 40: 499-505.

[http://www.nic.funet.fi/pub/sci/bio/life/insecta/lepidoptera/ditrysia/papilionoidea/papilionidae/papilioninae/graphium/index.html Graphium], Site of Markku Savela

| synonyms =

  • Papilio aurivilliusi Seeldrayers, 1896
  • Graphium auriger aurivilliusi; Hancock, 1993

|status_ref={{cite iucn |author=Gimenez Dixon, M. |date=1996 |title=Graphium aurivilliusi |volume=1996 |page=e.T9470A12991215 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.1996.RLTS.T9470A12991215.en |access-date=17 November 2021}}

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Graphium aurivilliusi is a species of butterfly in the family Papilionidae (swallowtails). It is endemic to the Democratic Republic of the Congo.[http://atbutterflies.com/downloads/papilionidae_leptocercini.doc Afrotropical Butterflies: File C – Papilionidae - Tribe Leptocercini] It is only known from the type series of males.The type specimens is labelled “Congo” only. It may be a form of Graphium agamedes.

Description

The broad black marginal band of the hindwing is always ornamented with light spots. The wings have a common light median band, which does not reach the base of the hindwing and is interrupted in cellule 5 of the forewing. Hindwing beneath without black basal, dot in cellule 7 and consequently with only two such dots. Hindwing with 3—8 usually double sub¬ marginal spots.

Markings white, slightly suffused with greenish; discal spots 1 a and 1 b of the forewing do not cover the base of these cellules; both wings with two small streak-like submarginal spots in each cellule; hindwing above with a single discal spot in each of cellules 2–4; the white basal spot of cellule 2 of the hindwing obliquely cut off distally and sharply defined; the cell of the forewing with 3—4 white longitudinal streaks opposite to cellule 3 and with a white costal marginal spot just before the apex.Congo region.Aurivillius, [P.O.]C. 1908-1924. In: Seitz, A. Die Großschmetterlinge der Erde Band 13: Abt. 2, Die exotischen Großschmetterlinge, Die afrikanischen Tagfalter, 1925, 613 Seiten, 80 Tafeln (The Macrolepidoptera of the World 13).

Alfred Kernen Verlag, Stuttgart.{{PD-notice}}

Taxonomy

Graphium aurivilliusi belongs to a species group with 16 members. All are very similar

The species group members are:

Images

[https://virtualcol.africamuseum.be/providence/pawtucket/index.php/Detail/objects/7634 External images] from Royal Museum of Central Africa.

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