''Graphium adamastor'', the Boisduval's white lady, is a
butterfly in the family
Papilionidae (swallowtails). It is found in
Guinea
Guinea ( ),, fuf, 𞤘𞤭𞤲𞤫, italic=no, Gine, wo, Gine, nqo, ߖߌ߬ߣߍ߫, bm, Gine officially the Republic of Guinea (french: République de Guinée), is a coastal country in West Africa. It borders the Atlantic Ocean to the we ...
,
Sierra Leone,
Mali,
Burkina Faso,
Ivory Coast
Ivory Coast, also known as Côte d'Ivoire, officially the Republic of Côte d'Ivoire, is a country on the southern coast of West Africa. Its capital is Yamoussoukro, in the centre of the country, while its largest city and economic centre is ...
,
Ghana,
Togo,
Benin,
Nigeria,
Cameroon, the
Republic of the Congo
The Republic of the Congo (french: République du Congo, ln, Republíki ya Kongó), also known as Congo-Brazzaville, the Congo Republic or simply either Congo or the Congo, is a country located in the western coast of Central Africa to the w ...
, the
Central African Republic and the
Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Description
''G.adamastor'' is very similar to the preceding species ''
Graphium agamedes'' and only differs in that the transverse spot of the cell of the forewing is larger and reaches the front margin of the cell, the discal spot in cellule 2 on the contrary is smaller and rounded or entirely wanting, so that the median hand is here interrupted. — Ashanti and Togo.
[Aurivillius, .O.. 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.]
Biology
Its habitat consists of
dry forests and the transition zone between forests and the
Guinea savanna
Guinea ( ),, fuf, 𞤘𞤭𞤲𞤫, italic=no, Gine, wo, Gine, nqo, ߖߌ߬ߣߍ߫, bm, Gine officially the Republic of Guinea (french: République de Guinée), is a coastal country in West Africa. It borders the Atlantic Ocean to the we ...
.
Adult females
mimic ''
Amauris damocles
''Amauris damocles'', the small monk, is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found in Senegal, Gambia, Guinea, Burkina Faso, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Benin, Nigeria, Cameroon and Tanzania. The habitat consists of ...
''. Both sexes feed from flowers, including ''
Calodendrum splendens''.
The larvae feed on various
Annonaceae species.
Taxonomy
''Graphium adamastor'' belongs to a
species group with 16 members. All are very similar
The species group members are:
*''
Graphium abri''
Smith & Vane-Wright, 2001
*''Graphium adamastor''
(Boisduval, 1836)
*''
Graphium agamedes''
(Westwood, 1842)
*''
Graphium almansor
''Graphium almansor'', the Almansor white-lady swordtail or Honrath's white lady, is a butterfly in the family Papilionidae (swallowtails). It is found in Guinea, Ghana, Togo, Nigeria, Cameroon, the Republic of the Congo, Angola, the Cent ...
''
(Honrath, 1884)
*''
Graphium auriger''
(Butler, 1876)
*''
Graphium aurivilliusi''
(Seeldrayers, 1896)
*''
Graphium fulleri ''
(Grose-Smith, 1883)
*''
Graphium hachei''
(Dewitz, 1881)
*''
Graphium kigoma''
Carcasson, 1964
*''
Graphium olbrechtsi''
Berger, 1950
*''
Graphium poggianus''
(Honrath, 1884)
*''
Graphium rileyi''
Berger, 1950
*''
Graphium schubotzi''
(Schultze, 1913)
*''
Graphium simoni''
(Aurivillius, 1899),
*''
Graphium ucalegon ''
(Hewitson, 1865) /small>
*'' adamastor
Butterflies described in 1836">Graphium ucalegonides'' (Staudinger, 1884)
References
Graphium (butterfly)">adamastor
Butterflies described in 1836
Taxa named by Jean Baptiste Boisduval
Butterflies of Africa
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