Byasa daemonius

Species of butterfly

Byasa daemonius
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Papilionidae
Genus: Byasa
Species:
B. daemonius
Binomial name
Byasa daemonius
Synonyms
  • Papilio daemonius Alphéraky, 1895[2]
  • Atrophaneura daemonius (Alphéraky, 1895)[2]
  • Papilio alcinous plutonius ab. fatuus Rothschild, 1895
  • Papilio daemonius var. yunnana Oberthür, 1907

Byasa daemonius[1] is a butterfly described by Sergei Alphéraky in 1895. It is found in Tibet and western China, that belongs to the windmills genus Byasa, comprising tailed black swallowtail butterflies with white spots and red submarginal crescents.

Subspecies

  • Byasa daemonius daemonius
  • Byasa daemonius yunnana (Oberthür, 1907) (Yunnan)

Status

Very little information is available and none on current status. Further research is required.

References

  1. ^ a b Häuser, Christoph L.; de Jong, Rienk; Lamas, Gerardo; Robbins, Robert K.; Smith, Campbell; Vane-Wright, Richard I. (28 July 2005). "Papilionidae – revised GloBIS/GART species checklist (2nd draft)". Entomological Data Information System. Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde Stuttgart, Germany. Archived from the original on 9 September 2010. Retrieved 21 June 2013.
  2. ^ a b Savela, Markku. "Atrophaneura daemonius (Alphéraky, 1895)". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved 6 December 2017.
  • Collins, N. Mark; Morris, Michael G. (1985). Threatened Swallowtail Butterflies of the World: The IUCN Red Data Book. Gland & Cambridge: IUCN. ISBN 978-2-88032-603-6 – via Biodiversity Heritage Library.
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Red-bodied swallowtails
Atrophaneura
  • A. aidoneus (lesser batwing)
  • A. dixoni
  • A. horishana (aurora swallowtail)
  • A. kuehni
  • A. luchti
  • A. nox (Malayan batwing)
  • A. priapus (Priapus batwing)
  • A. schadenbergi
  • A. semperi
  • A. sycorax
  • A. veruna (common batwing)
  • A. zaleucus
Byasa
  • B. adamsoni (Adamson's rose)
  • B. alcinous (Chinese windmill)
  • B. crassipes (black windmill)
  • B. daemonius
  • B. dasarada (great windmill)
  • B. hedistus
  • B. impediens
  • B. laos
  • B. latreillei (rose windmill)
  • B. mencius
  • B. nevilli (Nevill's windmill)
  • B. plutonius (Chinese windmill)
  • B. polla (De Niceville's windmill)
  • B. polyeuctes (common windmill)
  • B. rhadinus
Losaria
  • L. coon (common clubtail)
  • L. palu (Palu swallowtail)
  • L. rhodifer (Andaman clubtail)
  • L. neptunus (yellow-bodied club-tail)
Pachliopta
  • P. adamas
  • P. aristolochiae (common rose)
  • P. antiphus
  • P. atropos
  • P. hector (crimson rose)
  • P. jophon (Sri Lanka rose)
  • P. kotzebuea (pink rose)
  • P. eytensis
  • P. liris
  • P. mariae
  • P. oreon
  • P. pandiyana (Malabar rose)
  • P. phlegon
  • P. polydorus (red-bodied swallowtail)
  • P. polyphontes
  • P. strandi
Taxon identifiers
Byasa daemonius


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