Byasa polyeuctes

Byasa polyeuctes letincius, ♂, Nepal.

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Papilionoidea

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Cladus: Protostomia Cladus: Ecdysozoa Cladus: Panarthropoda Phylum: Arthropoda Cladus: Pancrustacea Cladus: Allotriocarida Subphylum: Hexapoda Classis: Insecta Cladus: Dicondylia Subclassis: Pterygota Infraclassis: Neoptera Cladus: Eumetabola Cladus: Holometabola Superordo: Panorpida Cladus: Amphiesmenoptera Ordo: Lepidoptera Subordo: Glossata Cladus: Coelolepida Cladus: Myoglossata Cladus: Neolepidoptera Infraordo: Heteroneura Cladus: Eulepidoptera Cladus: Ditrysia Cladus: Apoditrysia Cladus: Obtectomera Superfamilia: Papilionoidea

Familia: Papilionidae
Subfamilia: Papilioninae
Tribus: Troidini
Subtribus: Troidina
Genus: Byasa
Species: Byasa polyeuctes
Subspecies: (4)
B. p. lama – B. p. letincius – B. p. polyeuctes – B. p. termessus

Name

Byasa polyeuctes (Doubleday, 1842).

Type locality: North India, Sylhet.

Holotype: BMNH.

Synonymy

• Papilio polyeuctes Doubleday, 1842 in Gray,J.E. Zoological Miscellany (2d): 74.
• Papilio philoxenus polyeuctes [ab.] Doubleday; Rothschild, 1895: 265.
• Atrophanerua polyeuctes (Doubleday); D'Abrera, 1982: 36; C. Smith, 1993: 28.
• Atrophaneura polyeuctes polyeuctes (Doubleday); Butterflies in Indo-China [Yutaka Inayoshi].
• Byasa polyeuctes (Doubleday); Chou, 1994: 113.

References

• D'Abrera, B., 1982. Butterflies of the Oriental Region, Part I Papilionidae, Pieridae, Danaidae: pp. xxi+ 1-244. Hill House, Melbourne. Reference page. 
• Chou, I. & Gu, 1994. In Chou I. (ed.), Monographia Rhopalocerum Sinensium, 1-2.
• Gray, J.E. 1831: The Zoological Miscellany. To Be Continued Occasionally. London: Published by Treuttel, Wurtz and Co. (1831)
• Rothschild, L.W. 1895. A Revision of the Papilios of the Eastern hemisphere, exclusive of Africa. Novitates Zoologicae 2(3): 167–463, pls 8–10. BHL Text, plates. Reference page. 
• Smith, C., 1993. Illustrated Checklist of Nepal's Butterflies, 128pp. Rohit Kumar, Lashkar (Gwalior), India. ISBN 974-88810-7-5 Reference page. 

Vernacular names

বাংলা: পংখিল
English: Common Windmill
中文（臺灣）: 大紅紋鳳蝶
中文: 多姿麝鳳蝶