Graphium aurivilliusi
{{Short description|Species of butterfly}}
{{Speciesbox
| 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.
| synonyms =
- Papilio aurivilliusi Seeldrayers, 1896
- Graphium auriger aurivilliusi; Hancock, 1993
}}
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:
- Graphium abri Smith & Vane-Wright, 2001
- Graphium adamastor (Boisduval, 1836)
- Graphium agamedes (Westwood, 1842)
- Graphium almansor (Honrath, 1884)
- Graphium auriger (Butler, 1876)
- Graphium aurivilliusi (Seeldrayers, 1896)
- Graphium fulleri (Grose-Smith, 1883)
- Graphium hachei (Dewitz, 1881)
- Graphium kigoma Carcasson, 1964
- Graphium olbrechtsi Berger, 1950
- Graphium poggianus (Honrath, 1884)
- Graphium rileyi Berger, 1950
- Graphium schubotzi (Schultze, 1913)
- Graphium simoni (Aurivillius, 1899),
- Graphium ucalegon (Hewitson, 1865)[
- Graphium ucalegonides (Staudinger, 1884)
Images
[https://virtualcol.africamuseum.be/providence/pawtucket/index.php/Detail/objects/7634 External images] from Royal Museum of Central Africa.
References
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External links
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- [http://projects.bebif.be/enbi/albertinerift/butterfly/specimeninfo?id=8282 External images]
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Category:Lepidoptera of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
Category:Endemic fauna of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
Category:Butterflies described in 1896
Category:Butterflies of Africa
Category:Taxonomy articles created by Polbot
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