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Pachliopta
Red-bodied swallowtails, or ruby swallowtail (due to the color), are butterflies in the Papilionidae, swallowtail family, that belong to the genera ''Atrophaneura'', ''Byasa'', ''Losaria'', or ''Pachliopta''. They are generally found in Asia (Indomalayan realm). Insect collecting, 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 Batesia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pachliopta Aristolochiae
''Pachliopta aristolochiae'', the common rose, is a species of swallowtail butterfly belonging to the genus ''Pachliopta'', the roses, or red-bodied swallowtails. It is a common butterfly which is extensively distributed across South Asia, south and southeast Asia. Range It is widely distributed in Asia including Afghanistan, Pakistan, India (including the Andaman Islands), Nepal, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Thailand, Japan (south-western Okinawa Prefecture, Okinawa only), Laos, Vietnam, Cambodia, Nicobar Islands, peninsular and eastern Malaysia, Brunei, Philippines (Palawan and Leyte), Indonesia, Bangladesh and Taiwan. In China, it is distributed in southern and eastern China (including Hainan, Guangdong province) and Hong Kong. In Indonesia, it is distributed in Sumatra, Nias, Enggano, Bangka Island, Bangka, Java, Bali, Kangean Islands, Kangean, Lombok, Sumbawa, Sumba, Flores, Tanahjampea, and Kalimantan. Status It is very common almost all over the plains of India, and is not threate ... [...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] |
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] |
Batesian Mimicry
Batesian mimicry is a form of mimicry where a harmless species has evolved to imitate the warning signals of a harmful species directed at a predator of them both. It is named after the English naturalist Henry Walter Bates, who worked on butterflies in the rainforests of Brazil. Batesian mimicry is the most commonly known and widely studied of mimicry complexes, such that the word mimicry is often treated as synonymous with Batesian mimicry. There are many other forms however, some very similar in principle, others far separated. It is often contrasted with Müllerian mimicry, a form of mutually beneficial convergence between two or more harmful species. However, because the mimic may have a degree of protection itself, the distinction is not absolute. It can also be contrasted with functionally different forms of mimicry. Perhaps the sharpest contrast here is with aggressive mimicry where a predator or parasite mimics a harmless species, avoiding detection and improving its ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Butterflies
Butterflies are winged insects from the lepidopteran superfamily Papilionoidea, characterized by large, often brightly coloured wings that often fold together when at rest, and a conspicuous, fluttering flight. The oldest butterfly fossils have been dated to the Paleocene, about 56 million years ago, though molecular evidence suggests that they likely originated in the Cretaceous. Butterflies have a four-stage life cycle, and like other holometabolous insects they undergo complete metamorphosis. Winged adults lay eggs on the food plant on which their larvae, known as caterpillars, will feed. The caterpillars grow, sometimes very rapidly, and when fully developed, pupate in a chrysalis. When metamorphosis is complete, the pupal skin splits, the adult insect climbs out, expands its wings to dry, and flies off. Some butterflies, especially in the tropics, have several generations in a year, while others have a single generation, and a few in cold locations may take sever ... [...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] |
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] |
Frederic Moore
Frederic Moore FZS (13 May 1830 – 10 May 1907) was a British entomologist and illustrator. He produced six volumes of ''Lepidoptera Indica'' and a catalogue of the birds in the collection of the East India Company. It has been said that Moore was born at 33 Bruton Street, but that may be incorrect given that this was the address of the menagerie and office of the Zoological Society of London from 1826 to 1836. Moore was appointed an assistant in the East India Company Museum in London from 31 May 1848 on a "disestablished basis" and became a temporary writer and then an assistant curator at the East India Company Museum with a pension of £330 per annum from 31 December 1879. He had a daughter, Rosa Martha Moore. He began compiling ''Lepidoptera indica'' (1890–1913), a major work on the butterflies of the South Asia in 10 volumes, which was completed after his death by Charles Swinhoe. Many of the plates were produced by his son while some others were produced by E C Kn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Atrophaneura Aidoneus
''Atrophaneura aidoneus'', the lesser batwing, is an Asian species of butterfly that belongs to the batwings group of ''Atrophaneura'', comprising tailless black swallowtail butterflies. Description * Wingspan: 112–162 mm. * Male: Tailless. Above, the butterfly is bluish black and unmarked. It has a white scent patch in a square dorsal fold, which is pink or red on its marginal edge. This white scent patch is smaller than that of the common windmill. * Female: Tailless. Above, the butterfly is grey brown. It has dark stripes between the veins. Resembles '' Atrophaneura varuna'' race ''astorion'', but differs as follows: Cell of forewing proportionately not quite so long; abdominal fold to the hindwing in male not so broad, its lower margin not square, rounded; the specialized scales within the fold white, with an edging of pink. Female larger. Upperside: ground colour olivaceous brown, never black; abdomen with a broad white, not crimson, lateral stripe. Description in ... [...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 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] |
