Graphium levassori
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| image = Graphium levassori.JPG
| status = EN | status_system = IUCN2.3
| genus = Graphium (butterfly)
| species = levassori
| authority = (Oberthür, 1890)Oberthür, C. 1890. Lepidopteres des Iles Comores. Etudes d’Entomologie 13: 9-15.[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 levassori Oberthür, 1886
}}
Graphium levassori, the yellow lady, is a species of butterfly in the family Papilionidae. It is endemic to the Comoros.[http://atbutterflies.com/downloads/papilionidae_leptocercini.doc Afrotropical Butterflies: File C – Papilionidae - Tribe Leptocercini]
Description
The greater part of the wings above is yellowish white, but the following parts are black: the costal margin of the forewing as far as the cell and on the hindwing the apex, which is
adorned with two light spots in cellules 7 and 8, and a marginal line, only 1 mm broad between vein 5 and the hinder angle, which is somewhat widened at the apical angle and there encloses two light spots. — Great Comoro.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
It is a member of the leonidas-group of closely species (Graphium leonidas, Graphium levassori, Graphium cyrnus).
References
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Sources
- [http://www.iucnredlist.org IUCN Red List of all current Threatened Species ]
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Category:Endemic fauna of the Comoros
Category:Butterflies of Africa
Category:Endangered biota of Africa
Category:Butterflies described in 1890
Category:Taxonomy articles created by Polbot
Category:Lepidoptera of the Comoros
Category:Taxa named by Charles Oberthür
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