''Papilio montrouzieri'', occasionally referred to as Montrouzier's Ulysses, or New Caledonian tailless Ulysses, is a
species
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of
swallowtail butterfly
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from the
genus
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Papilio
''Papilio'' is a genus in the swallowtail butterfly family, Papilionidae, as well as the only representative of the tribe Papilionini. The word ''papilio'' is Latin for butterfly.
It includes the common yellow swallowtail ('' Papilio machaon'') ...
'' that is endemic to
New Caledonia
New Caledonia ( ; ) is a group of islands in the southwest Pacific Ocean, southwest of Vanuatu and east of Australia. Located from Metropolitan France, it forms a Overseas France#Sui generis collectivity, ''sui generis'' collectivity of t ...
. It resembles the more widespread relative, ''
Papilio ulysses''. Its name refers to French
entomologist
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, explorer and priest
Xavier Montrouzier
Reverendus Pater Jean Xavier Hyacinthe Montrouzier (3 December 1820 – 6 May 1897)
was a French Marist priest, explorer, botanist, zoologist and entomologist.
Abbé Montrouzier studied the flora and fauna of Melanesia especially New Caledonia.
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.
Description
P. montrouzieri Bdv. (= ulyssinus Westw., chaudoiri Fldr.). Smaller than all the forms of ''P. ulysses'', both wings more strongly sinuous between the veins, the forewing beneath with yellowish grey transverse bar in the cell and crescents of the same colour as proximal bordering to the grey discal area; the submarginal spots of the hindwing darker yellow than in ''P. ulysses''. The genitalia are extraordinarily different from those of ''P.ulysses''.
The number of the pilose stripes in the and the extent of the blue in male and female are variable. The principal forms
are: f. ''ulyssellus'' Westw., the blue reaches in the male to beyond the apex of the cell and completely encloses the small black discocellular spot; the pilose stripes are absent or feebly indicated, in the female the blue reaches to or nearly to the apex of the cell of the forewing. f. ''montrouzieri'' Bdv. (87 c), the blue in the male does not extend beyond the apex of the cell and extends in the female about to the 3. medial vein, the pilose stripes are narrow but distinct.f. ''westwoodi'' Oberth., the blue still more strongly reduced, the male with 4 or 5 rather broad pilose stripes. — New Caledonia and Loyalty Islands.
Karl Jordan in Seitz.
[Seitz, A. Band 9: Abt. 2, Die exotischen Großschmetterlinge, Die indo-australischen Tagfalter, 1927, 1197 Seiten 177 Tafel]
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Taxonomy
''montrouzieri'' is a member of species group: ''ulysses''The members are
*''Papilio montrouzieri'' Boisduval, 1859
*''
Papilio syfanius'' Oberthür, 1886
*''
Papilio ulysses'' Linnaeus, 1758
See also
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Biodiversity of New Caledonia
References
*Erich Bauer and Thomas Frankenbach, 1998 ''Schmetterlinge der Erde'', Butterflies of the World Part I (1), Papilionidae Papilionidae I: ''Papilio'', Subgenus ''Achillides'', ''Bhutanitis'', ''Teinopalpus''. Edited by Erich Bauer and Thomas Frankenbach. Keltern: Goecke & Evers; Canterbury: Hillside Books, plate 9, figure 6
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External links
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Images of syntype
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montrouzieri
Butterflies described in 1859
Taxa named by Jean Baptiste Boisduval
Butterflies of Oceania
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