Graphium gelon

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| image = Graphium gelon (3).jpg

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| status = LC

| status_system = IUCN3.1

| status_ref = {{cite iucn |author=Bains, T. |author2=Böhm, M. |author3=Müller, C.J. |year=2021 |title=Graphium gelon |volume=2021 |page=e.T121979984A122602481 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2021-2.RLTS.T121979984A122602481.en |access-date=19 October 2021}}

| genus = Graphium (butterfly)

| species = gelon

| authority = (Boisduval, 1859)[http://www.nic.funet.fi/pub/sci/bio/life/insecta/lepidoptera/ditrysia/papilionoidea/papilionidae/papilioninae/graphium/index.html Graphium], funet.fi

| synonyms = *Papilio gelon Boisduval, 1859

  • Papilio megasthenes Mathew, 1889

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Graphium gelon is a butterfly of the family Papilionidae. It is found in New Caledonia and the nearby Loyalty Islands.

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File:Seitz9FaunaIndoAustralicaPlate44.jpg|Graphium gelon and related species

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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}}
  • {{cite journal |last1=Müller |first1=Chris J. |last2=Tennent |first2=W. J. |title=A new species of Graphium Scopoli (Lepidoptera: Papilionidae) from the Bismarck Archipelago, Papua New Guinea |journal=Records of the Australian Museum |date=1999 |volume=51 |issue=2 |pages=161–168 |doi=10.3853/j.0067-1975.51.1999.1303|doi-access=free}} Presents a key to the closely related Graphium kosii , Graphium weiskei (Ribbe), G.stresemanni (Rothschild), G. batjanensis Okano, G. macleayanum (Leach) and G. gelon (Boisduval) all of which are confined to the Australasian region.

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Category:Butterflies of Oceania

Category:Insects of New Caledonia

Category:Endemic fauna of New Caledonia

Category:Butterflies described in 1859

Category:Taxa named by Jean Baptiste Boisduval

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