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Graphium latreillianus

{{Short description|Species of butterfly}}

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| image = Graphium latreillianus.JPG

| genus = Graphium (butterfly)

| species = latreillianus

| authority = (Godart, 1819) Godart, J.B. in Latreille , P.A., & Godart, J.B. [1819], [1824]. Encyclopedie Methodique Histoire Naturelle [Zoologie] 9 Entomologie: i-iv, 1-328 [1819], 329-828 [1824]. Paris. [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 latreillianus Godart, 1819
  • Graphium (Arisbe) latreillianus
  • Papilio latreillanus var. theorini Aurivillius, 1881
  • Papilio potamonianus Ehrmann, 1909
  • Papilio latreillianus theorini ab. infrapicta Strand, 1914
  • Papilio aurivillianus Avinoff, 1926
  • Graphium tynderaeus theorini f. xerophila Berger, 1950
  • Papilio latreillanus theorini ab. lutea Birket-Smith, 1960

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Graphium latreillianus, the coppery swordtail, is a butterfly in the family Papilionidae. It is found in Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Nigeria, Cameroon, Sao Tome and Principe, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, the Republic of the Congo, Angola, the Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Chad, Uganda and Tanzania.[http://atbutterflies.com/downloads/papilionidae_leptocercini.doc Afrotropical Butterflies: File C – Papilionidae - Tribe Leptocercini]

Image:Graphium latreillianus theoriniP1020625.jpg

Description

For terms see External morphology of Lepidoptera

Hindwing tailless, with rounded margin, which is angled at the ends of the veins or merely undulate. Wings above black-brown with green spots. Hindwing beneath at the base with one or several separated black dots or spots and distinct black dots or spots in the apex of the cell and in the basal part of cellules 1 c—7. Margin of the hindwing slightly waved; palpi yellow; dots on frons and breast white, the spots of the under surface faint and yellowish, with a brassy sheen, never green. — latreillianus Godt. is smaller; forewing above with distinct green submarginal dots. Sierra Leone. — theorini Auriv. (3 d). Larger; the forewing entirely without submarginal dots. Cameroons to AngolaAurivillius, [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 latreillianus latreillianus (Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana)
  • Graphium latreillianus theorini (Aurivillius, 1881) Aurivillius, [P.O.]C. 1881. Om en Samling Fjärilar frän Gaboon. Entomologisk Tidskrift 2: 38-47. (Nigeria, Cameroon, Sao Tome and Principe, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Angola, Central African Republic, Chad, western Uganda, Tanzania)

Taxonomy

It is a member of the tynderaeus -clade (Graphium tynderaeus, Graphium philonoe, Graphium latreillianus).

Images

[https://virtualcol.africamuseum.be/providence/pawtucket/index.php/Detail/objects/7602 External images] from Royal Museum of Central Africa.

References

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  • Carcasson, R.H. 1960 "The Swallowtail Butterflies of East Africa (Lepidoptera, Papilionidae)". Journal of the East Africa Natural History Society [https://archive.org/details/cbarchive_101755_theswallowtailbutterfliesofeas1960 pdf] Key to East Africa members of the species group, diagnostic and other notes and figures. (Permission to host granted by The East Africa Natural History Society

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Category:Butterflies of Africa

Category:Butterflies described in 1819

Category:Taxa named by Jean-Baptiste Godart

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