Graphium eurypylus mecistius

Graphium eurypylus mecistius ♂, Borneo, Brunei.

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: Leptocircini
Genus: Graphium
Subgenus: Graphium (Graphium)
Species: Graphium eurypylus
Subspecies: Graphium eurypylus mecistius

Name

Graphium eurypylus mecistius (Distant, 1885).

Type locality: West Malaysia, Malacca.

Holotype: ♂ BMNH.

Synonymy

• Papilio mecisteus Distant, 1885: 361, fig. 108.
• Papilio eurypylus daton Fruhstorfer, 1908 Ent. Zs. 21 (37): 222. TL: West-Java.
• Papilio eurypylus axion mecisteus (ab.) Distant; Rothschild, 1895: 434.
• Graphium eurypylus mecisteus (Distant); D'Abrera, 1982: 100; Eliot, 1992: 76, pl. 5, figs 7-8.
• Arisbe (Eurypleana) eurypylus mecisteus (Distant); Page & Treadaway, 2003, Butterflies of the world, 17: 4, pl. 4, f. 13, pl. 5, f. 1

References

• D'Abrera, B., 1982. Butterflies of the Oriental Region, Part I Papilionidae, Pieridae, Danaidae: pp. xxi+ 1-244. Hill House, Melbourne. Reference page. 
• Distant, W.L. 1882–1886. Rhopalocera Malayana. xvi + 481pp., 41 pls. London. Reference page. 
• Eliot, J. N. 1992. With plates by D'Abrera, in Corbet & Pendlebury. The Butterflies of the Malay Peninsula 4th Edn. Malayan Nature Society, Kuala Lumpur. 595pp., 69 pls. Reference page. 
• Page & Treadaway, 2003. Butterflies of the World 17, Papilionidae 9. Papilionidae of the Philippines. 71 pp. 59 pls. Goecke & Evers. Reference page. 
• 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.