Friday, June 17, 2022

[Entomology • 2022] Graphium septentrionicolus Page & Treadaway, 2013 (Lepidoptera: Papilionidae) is A Distinct Species


Graphium septentrionicolus Page & Treadaway, 2013

in Cotton, Doleck, Zhang, ... et Hu, 2022.  
 
Abstract
After molecular and morphological analyses, the taxon septentrionicolus Page & Treadaway, 2013 is shown to be a distinct species, and Graphium adonarensis (Rothschild, 1896) is placed as conspecific with Graphium sarpedon (Linnaeus, 1758). Graphium huangshanensis Wu & Ma, 2016 syn. nov. is synonymised with G. septentrionicolus.

Key words: adonarensis, China, India, Laos, Myanmar, sarpedon complex, Sunda Islands, Vietnam 

Specimens of Graphium septentrionicolus.
A (dsf.) and B (wsf.): Metok, S. Tibet, China; C: Yingjiang, western Yunnan, China (dsf.); D: Fugong, northwestern Yunnan, China (wsf.); E: northern Sagaing, Myanmar (dsf.); F: northern Kachin State, Myanmar (wsf.); G: Sam Neua, northeastern Laos (dsf.); H: Ha Giang, northern Vietnam (wsf.)

(above upperside; below under-side; dsf. = dry season form, wsf. = wet season form). 
Scale bar = 10 mm.



 Adam M. Cotton, Tenzing Doleck, Xin Zhang, Yutaka Inayoshi, David J. Lohman and Shao-ji Hu. 2022. Graphium septentrionicolus Page & Treadaway, 2013 (Lepidoptera: Papilionidae) is a distinct species.  Zootaxa. 5154(2); 211-224. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5154.2.6