Graphium glycerion
{{Short description|Species of butterfly}}
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| image = PazalaGlycerion 479 1.jpg
| status =
| genus = Graphium (butterfly)
| species = glycerion
| authority = (Gray, 1831){{cite web |last=Savela |first=Markku |url=http://www.nic.funet.fi/pub/sci/bio/life/insecta/lepidoptera/ditrysia/papilionoidea/papilionidae/papilioninae/graphium/#glycerion |title=Graphium glycerion (Gray, 1831) |website=Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms |accessdate=January 19, 2019}}
| synonyms =
- Papilio glycerion Gray, 1831{{cite book|last1=Gray|first1=George Robert|editor1-last=Gray|editor1-first=John Edward|editor-link=John Edward Gray |title=The Zoological Miscellany|date=1831|publisher=Treuttei, Wurtz and Co|location=London|page=32|chapter-url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/49831386|chapter=Descriptions of eight new species of Indian Butterflies, (Papilio, Lin.) from the collection of General Hardwicke}}
- Pazala glycerion {{small|Moore, 1888}}{{cite book |last1=Hewitson |first1=William C. |authorlink1=William Chapman Hewitson |last2=Moore |first2=Frederic |authorlink2=Frederic Moore |name-list-style=amp |date=1879 |chapter-url=https://archive.org/details/descriptionsofne00hewi/page/282 |chapter=Pazala, n. g. |title=Descriptions of New Indian Lepidopterous Insects: From the Collection of the Late Mr. W.S. Atkinson, M.A., F.L.S., &c. |publisher=The Asiatic Society of Bengal |pages=283 |oclc=9625544 |via=Internet Archive}}
- Papilio glycerion caschmirensis Rothschild, 1895
- Pazala glycerion phangana Okano, 1986
}}
Graphium glycerion, the spectacle swordtail, is a species of butterfly found in the Indomalayan realm (northern India, China, Thailand, Laos and northern Vietnam). The species was first described by George Robert Gray in 1831.
Subspecies
- G. g glycerion (Nepal, Sikkim, Assam)
- G. g. caschmirensis (Rothschild, 1895) (north-western India)
- G. g. kimurai Murayama, 1982 (northern Thailand)
- G. g. phangana (Okano, 1986) (northern Thailand)
Taxonomy
It may be a synonym of Graphium mandarinus Collins & Morris.{{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}} It is however treated as a "good species" by Koiwaya.Koiwaya, S. (1993) Descriptions of Three New Genera, Eleven New Species and Seven New Subspecies of Butterflies from China. Studies of Chinese Butterflies. A further problem is that the name glycerion is permanently invalid as a junior primary homonym of Papilio glycerion Borkhausen, 1788.
Graphium glycerion is very little known and as with Graphium mandarinus, G. tamerlanus, G. phidias and G. olbrechtsi few specimens exist.
References
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External links
{{Commons category|Graphium glycerion}}
- [http://en.butterflycorner.net/Graphium-glycerion-Spectacle-Swordtail.1278.0.html Butterfly Corner] — Images from Naturhistorisches Museum Wien
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Category:Butterflies of Indochina