Losaria rhodifer
{{Short description|Species of butterfly}}
{{Speciesbox
| name = Andaman clubtail
| image = ANDAMAN SPLENDOR (7999782653).jpg
| status = NT
| status_system = IUCN3.1
| taxon = Losaria rhodifer
| authority = (Butler, 1876){{cite web |url=http://www.insects-online.de/frames/papilio.htm |title=Papilionidae – revised GloBIS/GART species checklist (2nd draft) |author1=Häuser, Christoph L. |author2=de Jong, Rienk |author3=Lamas, Gerardo |author4=Robbins, Robert K. |author5=Smith, Campbell |author6=Vane-Wright, Richard I. |date=28 July 2005 |work=Entomological Data Information System |publisher=Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde Stuttgart, Germany |accessdate=21 June 2013}}
| synonyms =
Atrophaneura rhodifer
}}
Losaria rhodifer, the Andaman clubtail, is a rare species of the swallowtail family, Papilionidae, native to India.
Distribution
The butterfly is endemic and restricted to the Andaman Islands in the Bay of Bengal.{{Cite journal|last1=Rushbrooke (ZSL)|first1=Martha|last2=Moonen|first2=Jan|last3=Kunte|first3=Krushnamegh|last4=Kehimkar|first4=Isaac|last5=Jangid|first5=Ashish|date=2019-01-11|title=IUCN Red List of Threatened Species: Losaria rhodifer|url=https://www.iucnredlist.org/en|access-date=2021-05-20|website=IUCN Red List of Threatened Species|doi=10.2305/iucn.uk.2020-2.rlts.t121974900a170538804.en}}
Description
Male differs from Losaria coon as follows:{{cite book |last1=Bingham |first1=C.T. |authorlink=Charles Thomas Bingham |title=The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma |url=https://archive.org/details/butterflies02bingiala |volume=II |edition=1st |publisher= Taylor and Francis, Ltd. |location=London |year=1907 }}
{{quote|Ground-colour a rich velvety-black, much darker than in doubledayi; on the fore wing the pale streaks extend only into the apex of the cell. On the hind wing the medial white markings are much shorter, the spots at base of interspaces 4 and 5 and generally the spot in interspace 7 absent; the subterminal and terminal vermilion spots are much larger, and the tail is vermilion on its apical spatulate portion. Antennae, head, thorax and abdomen as in doubledayi, but the head entirely vermilion-red. Female closely resembles the male, fore wing broader, red markings on hind wing more crimson than vermilion-red, often dull and irrorated slightly with black scales; medial white markings more extensive, the white mark in interspace 1 extends well below vein 1.}}
Status
It has been described as not rare but much work needs to be done to clarify its exact status and distribution. It is not listed as threatened.{{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}}
Taxonomy
There are no subspecies.
See also
Cited references
References
- {{cite book |last1=Evans |first1=W.H. |authorlink=William Harry Evans |title=The Identification of Indian Butterflies |edition=2nd |location=Mumbai, India |publisher=Bombay Natural History Society |year=1932 }}
- {{cite book |last=Haribal |first=Meena |title=The Butterflies of Sikkim Himalaya and Their Natural History |location=Gangtok, Sikkim, India |publisher=Sikkim Nature Conservation Foundation |year=1992 }}
- {{cite book|last=Wynter-Blyth |first=Mark Alexander |authorlink=Mark Alexander Wynter-Blyth |title=Butterflies of the Indian Region |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yEkgAQAAMAAJ |year=1957 |location=Bombay, India |publisher=Bombay Natural History Society |isbn=978-8170192329 }}
- K. Veenakumari & Prashanth Mohanraj, 1994 "Life history of Pachliopta rhodifer (Papilionidae: Troidini)" Journal of the Lepidopterists' Society 1994 Volume 48:111-120 [http://images.peabody.yale.edu/lepsoc/jls/1990s/1994/1994-48%282%29111-Veenakumari.pdf pdf]
{{Red-bodied swallowtail|state=expanded}}
{{Taxonbar|from=Q1759610}}
Category:Butterflies described in 1876
Category:Taxa named by Arthur Gardiner Butler
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