''Sericinus'' is a
genus
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of
swallowtail butterflies placed in the subfamily
Parnassiinae
The Parnassiinae or snow Apollos are a subfamily of the swallowtail butterfly family, Papilionidae.
The subfamily includes about 50 medium-sized, white or yellow species. The snow Apollos are high-altitude butterflies and are distributed across ...
. The genus has a complex history and a multiplicity of names have been applied to its single species.
''Sericinus montela'', the dragon swallowtail, is the only species, making the genus
monotypic
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. It is found in the
Russian Far East
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,
Korea
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,
China and
Japan.
Taxonomy
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''Sericinus''
Westwood, 1851 (''Transactions of the Entomological Society of London''. NS I: 173), monobasic
''telamon''
Donovan
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(''Sericinus'' Wood, 1877: ''Suicinus'' Draesecke, 1923) ''montela''
Gray
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, 1853.
Image:Stelammale.jpg, Male museum specimen from China
*
Subspecies ''manchurica''
( Bang-Haas (''i.l.'')
van Rosen
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, 1929 (North
China: South
Manchuria
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)
**
Form
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''roseni''
Bryk, 1932 ''gen. vern.''
**Form ''manschuricus''
van Rosen ''gen. aest.''
**Form ''cellopura''
**Form ''posterior exsubcostalis'' (!)
Eisner, 1974
**Form ''binaria''
Bryk
**Form ''minusculus''
Eisner, 1962
**Form ''nigricans''
Eisner, 1962
**Form ''minima''
Eisner, 1962
*Subspecies ''amurensis''
Staudinger, 1892 (East
U.S.S.R.,
Amurland
Outer Manchuria (russian: Приаму́рье, translit=Priamurye; zh, s=外满洲, t=外滿洲, p=Wài Mǎnzhōu), or Outer Northeast China ( zh, s=外东北, t=外東北, p=Wài Dōngběi), refers to a territory in Northeast Asia that is now ...
-
Ussuri
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)
Image:Stelamamurfj.jpg, Subspecies ''amurensis'', female, Amur
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, Russia
Image:Stelamamurmj.jpg, Subspecies ''amurensis'', male, Amur
**Form ''telemachus''
Staudinger, 1892 ''gen. vern.''
**Form ''amurensis''
Staudingers ''gen. vest''.
**Form ''minusculus''
Eisner, 1962
*Subspecies ''eisneri''
Bryk 1932 North East
Korea
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(probably ''amurensis'') ''gen. vern.'' not described.
**Form ''eisneri''
Bryk ''gen. aest.''
**Form ''binaria''
Eisner, 1962
**Form ''unaria''
Eisner, 1962 !
*Subspecies ''koreana''
Fixsen, 1887 (''melanogramma''
Bryk, 1846) Korea
**Form ''fixseni''
Staudinger, 1892 ''gen. vern.''
**Form ''koreanus''
Fix. ''gen. aest.''
**Form ''grayi''
Fixsen, 1887
**Form ''grundi''
Eisner, 1962
**Form ''binaria''
Eisner, 1962
**Form ''strandi''
Bryk 1913
**Form ''flavomaculata''
Eisner, 1962
**Form ''minusculus''
Eisner, 1962
**Form ''magna''
Eisner
**Form ''rubrocatenata''
Eisner
**Form ''posteriorsubmarginalisinterrupta'' (!)
Eisner, 1974
*Subspecies ''montela''
Gray, 1852 (''telamon''
Donovan, 1798: ''hoenei''
Hering), (Central and North China - Peking, Nanking, Chekiang, Shanghai)
Image:Smontelafj.jpg, Nominate subspecies, female
Image:Smontelamj.jpg, Nominate subspecies, male
**Form ''strandi''
Bryk, 1913
**Form ''telmona''
Gray 1852 ''gen. vern.'' (''hoenei''
Bryk, 1932)
**Form ''telmononula''
Bryk
**Form ''ruth''
Eisner, 1962
**Form ''montela''
Gray, 1852 ''gen. aest.''
**Form ''cellopura''
Eisner, 1954
**Form ''cellopurissima''
Eisner, 1954
**Form ''elegantissima''
Eisner, 1954
**Form ''flavomaculata''
Eisner, 1954
**Form ''miniuscula''
Eisner, 1962
**Form ''binaria''
Eisner, 1962
**Form ''nigricans''
Eisner, 1962
**Form ''eva''
Bryk and Eisner, 1935
**Form ''absurdus''
Bryk, 1913 (West China, South Shantung, Lau shan, Tientsin)
*Subspecies ''elegans''
Bryk, 1913 (''leechi''
Rothschild, 1918) (West China)
**Form '' telmona''
Gray ''gen. vern.''
**Form ''elegans''
Bryk ''gen. aest.''
**Form ''strandi''
Bryk, 1913
**Form ''leechi''
Rothschild, 1918
**Form ''cressoni''
Reakirt
*Subspecies ''anderssoni''
Bryk, 1941 (Central China: Hupei ''anderssoni'' Bryk, ''gen. aest.''
*Subspecies ''magnus''
Fruhstorfer, 1913 (South China: Kiangsi, Liu- kiang
*Subspecies ''kansuensis''
Eisner, 1962 (China: Kansu, Tsinglingshan, Szetchwan)
*Subspecies ''shantungensis''
Hering, 1935 (China: Shantung)
**Form ''cellopurissima''
Eisner, 1954
**Form ''binaria''
Eisner, 1962
**Form ''rubrocatenata''
Eisner, 1962
**Form ''quadripicta''
Eisner, 1962
**Form ''elegantissima''
Eisner, 1954
Notes
*monobasic = founded containing a single species, same as "
monotypic
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" if no more species are added
*''gen. vern.'' = ''vernalis'', genetically determined
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generation
*''gen. aest.'' = ''aestivus'', genetically determined
summer
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generation
*''gen. vest.'' = genetically determined vestigial form
*(!) = ''nomen collectivum'', a nomenclatural/descriptive term incorrectly used by
Curt Eisner
Curt Eisner (April 28, 1890 in Zabrze – December 30, 1981 in The Hague) was a German entomologist who specialised in snow butterflies or Parnassinae. His collections of Parnassinae are in Naturalis, in Leiden, and his Ornithoptera and Morphida ...
in a taxonomic sense (infrasubspecific)
*''i.l.'' = ''in litteris'', correspondence, not published
References
*Bryk, F. (1913) Neue Parnassiiden-Formen aus dem Zoologischen Museum zu Berlin.''Archiv für Naturgeschichte'' (A) 79 (3): 1-3; pl. 1
artim
*Bryk, F. (1932) Neue Zerynthiinae ''Parnassiana'' 2 (6-8): 102-104.
*Donovan, E. (1798) ''An Epitome of the natural History of the Insects of China''.E. Donovan, London.
*Eisner, C. 1954 (Parnassiana nova): III. Einige neue Formen in der Familie der Parnassiidae ''Zoologische Mededelingen'' 33 (8): 55-57
*Eisner, C. (1962) Parnassiana nova XXXII. Nachträgliche Betrachtungen zu der Revision der Subfamilie Parnassiinae (Fortsetzung 5).''Zoologische Mededelingen'' 38 (7): 105-128.
*Fixsen, C. (1887) Lepidoptera aus Korea .''Mémoires sur les Lépidoptères'' 3: 233-356, pls 13-15, 1 map
*Gray, G. R. (1852) On the Species of the Genus Sericinus. ''Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London'' 1852: 70-73
*Hering, M. (1935) Neue Unterarten von Sericinus telamon (Donov.) ''Internationale Entomologische Zeitschrift'' 29 (17): 193-195
*von Rosen, K. (1929). Papilio. In (A. Seitz ed.) ''The Macrolepidoptera of the World''. The Palearctic Butterflies. Alfred Kernen. Stuttgart. Suppl. 1 : 7-20.
*Rothschild,
.(1918) Catalogue of Zerynthiinae and allied genera in the Tring Museum, with critical notes., ''Novitates Zoologicae'' 25: 64-75.
*Staudinger, O. (1892) Die Macrolepidopteren des Amurgebietes. I. Theil. Rhopalocera, Sphinges, Bombyces, Sphinges ''Mémoires sur les Lépidoptères'' 6: 83-658
*Ackery, P.R., 1975. A guide to the genera and species of Parnassiinae (Lepidoptera: Papilionidae). ''Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Entomology''. 31: 71-105, plates 1-1
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Papilionidae
Taxa named by John O. Westwood
Butterfly genera