''Graphium stresemanni'' is a vulnerable species of butterfly in the family Papilionidae. It is endemic to the Indonesian island of Seram. It closely resembles the related ''

Graphium weiskei ''Graphium weiskei'', the purple spotted swallowtail, is a species of butterfly in the swallowtail family; Papilionidae. It is found only in the highlands of New Guinea. These swallowtails live in elevations of . The name honours the collector ...

'', a more common species from New Guinea but has been treated as a distinct species. It is rare. The species was first described by

Walter Rothschild Lionel Walter Rothschild, 2nd Baron Rothschild, Baron de Rothschild, (8 February 1868 – 27 August 1937) was a British banker, politician, zoologist and soldier, who was a member of the Rothschild family. As a Zionist leader, he was present ...

in 1916.

Taxonomy

''Graphium batjanensis'' described by Okano in 1984 appears to be

allopatric Allopatric speciation () – also referred to as geographic speciation, vicariant speciation, or its earlier name the dumbbell model – is a mode of speciation that occurs when biological populations become geographically isolated from ...

to ''G. stresemanni'' and the same species. It has also been suggested to be conspecific with ''G. weiskei''.

References

Sources

* *Müller, C. J. & Tennent, W. J. (1999)
"A New Species of ''Graphium'' Scopoli (Lepidoptera: Papilionidae) from the Bismarck Archipelago, Papua New Guinea 1999"
''Records of the Australian Museum''. 51: 161-168. Presents a key to the closely related ''

Graphium kosii ''Graphium kosii'' is a species of butterfly found only on New Ireland in Papua New Guinea Papua New Guinea (abbreviated PNG; , ; tpi, Papua Niugini; ho, Papua Niu Gini), officially the Independent State of Papua New Guinea ( tpi, ...

'', ''

'' (Ribbe), ''G. stresemanni'' (Rothschild), ''G. batjanensis'' Okano (see note), '' G. macleayanum'' (Leach) and '' G. gelon'' (Boisduval) all of which are confined to the Australasian region. *Okano, K. (1984). "On the butterflies of ''Graphium weiskei'' group (Papilionidae) with description of a new species". ''Tokurana (Acta Rhopalocera)''. 8 (1): 1-20.

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