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Byasa
Red-bodied swallowtails, or ruby swallowtail (due to the color), are butterflies in the swallowtail family, that belong to the genera ''Atrophaneura'', ''Byasa'', ''Losaria'', or ''Pachliopta''. They are generally found in Asia (Indomalayan realm). Collectors have found the red-bodied swallowtails difficult to kill. Pinching the thorax, a method which kills most butterflies, is withstood and only stuns the butterfly temporarily. Life history The larvae resemble those of other Troidini. Fleshy spine-like tubercles, often with red tips, line the caterpillars' backs, and their bodies are dark red to brown and velvety black or shades of grey with a pattern of black lines. They feed on species of '' Aristolochia'' and '' Thottea''. Chrysalids are camouflaged to look like a dead leaf or twig. They are attached by a girdle and an anal pad. Adults are nectar feeding. Many species of red-bodied swallowtails show aposematism, and serve as models for Batesian mimicry. The biology of ''Pa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Troidini
Troidini is a tribe of swallowtail butterflies that consists of some 135 species in 12 genera. Members of this tribe are superlatively large among butterflies (in terms of both wingspan and surface area) and are often strikingly coloured. Genera The tribe consists of the following genera: * '' Atrophaneura'' * '' Battus'' * '' Byasa'' * '' Cressida'' * '' Euryades'' * '' Losaria'' * '' Ornithoptera'' * '' Pachliopta'' * '' Parides'' * '' Pharmacophagus'' * '' Trogonoptera'' * '' Troides'' Ecology Members of this tribe feed on poisonous pipevine plants, typically of the genus '' Aristolochia'', as larvae. As a result, they themselves are poisonous and unpalatable to predators (Pinheiro 1986), like the pipevine swallowtail, and are mimicked by other butterflies (Scott 1986). Examples of butterflies in Troidini File:Close wing mud puddling behaviour of Atrophaneura varuna (White, 1842) - Common Batwing.jpg, '' Atrophaneura varuna'' File:Battus philenor on flower.jpg, '' Bat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Papilionidae
Swallowtail butterflies are large, colorful Butterfly, butterflies in the family Papilionidae, and include over 550 species. Though the majority are tropical, members of the family inhabit every continent except Antarctica. The family includes the largest butterflies in the world, the birdwing, birdwing butterflies of the genus ''Ornithoptera''. Swallowtails have a number of distinctive features; for example, the papilionid caterpillar bears a Ozopore, repugnatorial organ called the osmeterium on its prothorax. The osmeterium normally remains hidden, but when threatened, the larva turns it outward through a transverse dorsal groove by inflating it with fluid. The forked appearance in some of the swallowtails' hindwings, which can be seen when the butterfly is resting with its wings spread, gave rise to the common name ''swallowtail''. As for its formal name, Carl Linnaeus, Linnaeus chose ''Papilio'' for the type genus, as ''papilio'' is Latin for "butterfly". For the Specifi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pachliopta Hector
''Atrophaneura Hector'', the crimson rose, is a large swallowtail butterfly belonging to the genus ''Pachliopta'' (roses) of the red-bodied swallowtails. It is recorded as a species of "Least Concern (LC)" by IUCN. Range It is found in India, Sri Lanka, Maldives and possibly the coast of western Myanmar. In India, it is found in the Western Ghats, southern India ( Tamil Nadu, Kerala), eastern India (West Bengal and Odisha). It is a straggler in the Andaman Islands. Status It is generally common and not known to be threatened. It is common all along the Western Ghats up to Maharashtra but rare in Gujarat. This species is protected by law in India. Description The male's upperside is black. Forewing with a broad white interrupted band from the subcostal nervure opposite the origin of veins 10 and 11, extended obliquely to the tornus, and a second short pre-apical similar band; both bands composed of detached irregularly indented broad streaks in the interspaces. Hindwing wi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Atrophaneura Varuna
''Atrophaneura varuna'', the common batwing, is a butterfly found in India and Southeast Asia that belongs to the swallowtail family, and more specifically, the batwings group of ''Atrophaneura'', comprising tailless black swallowtail butterflies. Range Eastern Nepal, northern India (from Kumaon to Sikkim), Myanmar, Thailand, northern Laos, northern Vietnam, Bangladesh and Peninsular Malaysia. Status The butterfly is not rare across most of its range. It is extinct in Singapore. Description * Wingspan: 88 to 136 mm. * Male: Tailless. Above, the butterfly is bluish black and unmarked. : It has a scent patch in a rounded black-brown dorsal fold. When the fold is opened, the white lower half of the scent patch can be seen. * The abdomen has white stripes. The head of the butterfly is rose coloured. * Female: Tailless. Above, the butterfly is grey brown. It has dark stripes in between the veins. It has a large pale patch below vein 2 on the upper forewing. Male: Upperside ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Atrophaneura Sycorax
''Atrophaneura sycorax'' is a species of butterfly from the family Papilionidae that is found from southern Burma to Peninsular Malaysia, and in Sumatra and western Java. The wingspan is 130–140 mm. The wings are black. There is a wide dull-white marking on each of the hindwings. The body is completely covered in yellow hair. Females can be black or dark brown. The wing veins are bordered in white. Description in Seitz P. sycorax Gr.-Sm. (= egertoni Dist.) (17 a, b). Head and collar white; abdomen above bluish grey with a row of black dots at each side, beneath yellow. Upper surface of the male velvety black, of the female much paler and more metallic; hindwing from near the apex of the cell to the black marginal band blue-grey, with a row of black discal spots; beneath this area is much lighter and extends to the margin, the posterior black marginal spots being separated from one another and from the margin. — West and East Sumatra and Malay Peninsula, in hilly country. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Atrophaneura Schadenbergi
''Atrophaneura schadenbergi'' is a species of butterfly in the family Papilionidae. It is endemic to the Philippines The Philippines, officially the Republic of the Philippines, is an Archipelagic state, archipelagic country in Southeast Asia. Located in the western Pacific Ocean, it consists of List of islands of the Philippines, 7,641 islands, with a tot .... References Lepidoptera of the Philippines Taxonomy articles created by Polbot Taxobox binomials not recognized by IUCN Butterflies described in 1891 Taxa named by Georg Semper Butterflies of Asia {{papilionidae-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Atrophaneura Semperi
''Atrophaneura semperi'' is a species of butterfly from the family Papilionidae that is found in Indonesia, Malaysia, and the Philippines. It is the type species In International_Code_of_Zoological_Nomenclature, zoological nomenclature, a type species (''species typica'') is the species name with which the name of a genus or subgenus is considered to be permanently taxonomically associated, i.e., the spe ... for the genus. The wingspan is 12–15 cm. The wings are black. The body has red hairs. The underside of the hindwings contain some red markings. Females are dark brown with light pink markings on the upside of the wings. The larvae feed on '' Aristolochia'' species. Subspecies *''Atrophaneura semperi semperi'' (Philippines: Camiguin de Luzon, Polillo) *''Atrophaneura semperi aphthonia'' (Rothschild, 1908) (Philippines: Camiguin de Mindanao, Dinagar, Mindanao, Siargao) *''Atrophaneura semperi melanotus'' (Staudinger, 1889) (Philippines: Palawan, Calamian group) *'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Atrophaneura Priapus
''Atrophaneura priapus'', the Priapus batwing or white-head batwing, is a swallowtail butterfly found in Burma, Malaysia, Sumatra, and Java. The subspecies ''A. p. hageni'' was named to honour Hermann August Hagen. It may be a full species. ''A. priapus'' is a large butterfly (11–14 cm wingspan). The forewings are black with the wing veins bordered by white. The hindwings are black and have a wavy margin. There is a broad, slightly yellowish white band on the hindwing. This band contains large black spots. In males there is a white area with red edge next to the body. The underside is similar to the upperside, but the white area is missing. The abdomen is yellow and black above. The head (hence the common name white-head batwing) and the underside of abdomen are white or yellow. The thorax is black. Subspecies *''Atrophaneura priapus priapus'' west Java *''Atrophaneura priapus dilutus'' (Fruhstorfer, 1895) east Java The band of the hindwing is above more or less distinct ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Atrophaneura Nox
''Atrophaneura nox'', the Malayan batwing, is a papilionid butterfly found in Java, northern Borneo and Peninsular Malaysia. Description The species is black with blue metallic reflections. On the forewings the veins are shaded white. There are red hairs on the thorax. The wingspan is 9–11 cm. Females are larger than males. Subspecies *''A. n. nox'' Java *''A. n. noctis'' (Hewitson, 1859) north Borneo *''A. n. erebus'' (Wallace, 1865) Peninsular Malaya *''A. n. noctula'' (Westwood, 1872) north Borneo *''A. n. nyx'' (de Nicéville, 1897) Bali *''A. n. henricus'' (Fruhstorfer, 1899) north east Sumatra *''A. n. banjermasinus'' (Fruhstorfer, 1899) south Borneo *''A. n. solokanus'' (Fruhstorfer, 1903) south Sumatra *''A. n. niepeltiana'' (Strand, 1914) Sumatra *''A. n. petronius'' (Fruhstorfer, 1901) Nias *''A. n. smedleyi'' (Jordan, 1937) Mentaway Island *''A. n. tungensis'' Zin & Leow, 1982 Sumatra *''A. n. mirifica'' Hanafusa, 1994 Batu Island *''A. n. hirokoae'' Hirata & M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Atrophaneura Luchti
''Atrophaneura luchti'' is a species of butterfly in the family Papilionidae. It is endemic to Indonesia (Java). ''Atrophaneura luchti'' is restricted to the mountains in the far east of Java. Little is known about this species which closely resembles and may be a synonym of ''Atrophaneura priapus ''Atrophaneura priapus'', the Priapus batwing or white-head batwing, is a swallowtail butterfly found in Burma, Malaysia, Sumatra, and Java. The subspecies ''A. p. hageni'' was named to honour Hermann August Hagen. It may be a full species. '' ...''. Tsukada, E. and Nishiyama, Y. (1982). ''Butterflies of the South East Asian Islands''. Volume I Papilionidae. (transl. K. Morishita). Plapac Co. Ltd., Tokyo. 457 pp. References luchti Endemic fauna of Indonesia Butterflies of Java Taxonomy articles created by Polbot {{papilionidae-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Atrophaneura Kuehni
''Atrophaneura kuehni'' is a species of butterfly from the family Papilionidae. It is found on Sulawesi, Indonesia. The male's dorsal side is black overall, the ventral side has a red patch. The female is brown with markings paler than the male. Little is known about the status of this butterfly which may be very rare. It is held in very few museum collections. References External linksGlobal Butterfly Information Systemtext and images of syntype In biological nomenclature, a syntype is any one of two or more biological types that is listed in a description of a taxon where no holotype was designated. Precise definitions of this and related terms for types have been established as part o ... Butterflies described in 1886 Atrophaneura Butterflies of Indonesia Taxa named by Eduard Honrath {{Papilionidae-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
