Graphium fulleri

{{Short description|Species of butterfly}}

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| image = RhopaloceraExoticaPapilioII.jpg

| image_caption = Plate in Rhopalocera Exotica

| genus = Graphium (butterfly)

| species = fulleri

| authority = (Grose-Smith, 1883).Grose-Smith , H. 1883. Descriptions of three new species of Papilio. Entomologist’s Monthly Magazine 19: 234-235.[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 fulleri Grose-Smith, 1883
  • Graphium (Arisbe) fulleri
  • Papilio boulleti var. transiens Le Cerf, 1912
  • Papilio foersterius Strand, 1913
  • Papilio sanganus Strand, 1913
  • Papilio sanganoides Strand, 1913
  • Papilio sanganoides ab. divisimacula Strand, 1913
  • Papilio stetteni Strand, 1913
  • Graphium ucalegonides ucalegonides f. gabrieli Berger, 1950
  • Papilio boulleti Le Cerf, 1912
  • Papilio weberi Holland, 1917
  • Graphium ucalegonides beloni Darge, 1995

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Graphium fulleri is a butterfly in the family Papilionidae (swallowtails). It is found in Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, the Republic of the Congo, Angola, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Chad.[http://atbutterflies.com/downloads/papilionidae_leptocercini.doc Afrotropical Butterflies: File C – Papilionidae - Tribe Leptocercini]

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.

The markings are light yellow; the median band formed almost exactly as in G. ucalegon-,

cell of the forewing with an apical spot and a streak at the hindmargin between veins 3 and 4; hindwing with two submarginal dots each in cellules 2—6 and with three large discal spots about in the middle of cellules 2—4, beneath red at the base.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}}

Subspecies

  • Graphium fulleri fulleri (Cameroon, Congo)
  • Graphium fulleri boulleti (Le Cerf, 1912)Le Cerf, F. 1912. Description d’un Papilio du Congo francais. Bulletin de la Société Entomologique de France 1912: 382-383. (Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo)

Taxonomy

Graphium fulleri belongs to a species group with 16 members. All are very similar.fulleri is possibly a form of ''Graphium ucalegonides .

The species group members are:

Biogeographic realm

Images

[https://virtualcol.africamuseum.be/providence/pawtucket/index.php/Detail/objects/7610 External images] from Royal Museum of Central Africa.

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}}