Graphium almansor
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Graphium almansor, the Almansor white-lady swordtail or Honrath's white lady, is a butterfly in the family Papilionidae (swallowtails). It is found in Guinea, Ghana, Togo, Nigeria, Cameroon, the Republic of the Congo, Angola, the Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Sudan, Ethiopia, Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Zambia and possibly Rwanda and Burundi.[3]
Adults of both sexes mimic Amauris species, including Amauris damocles and species of the Amauris echeria-group. Males are attracted to damp spots on river banks (mud-puddling) and both sexes feed from flowers.
The larvae feed on Pseudospondias microcarpa.
Subspecies
- Graphium almansor almansor (Angola, Democratic Republic of the Congo, northern Zambia)
- Graphium almansor birbiri (Ungemach, 1932) [4] (south-western Ethiopia)
- Graphium almansor carchedonius (Karsch, 1895) [5] (Guinea, Ghana, Togo)
- Graphium almansor escherichi (Gaede, 1915)[6] (eastern Nigeria, Cameroon, Congo, Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of the Congo, southern Sudan, Uganda)
- Graphium almansor uganda (Lathy, 1906)[7] (Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda, south-western Kenya, north-western Tanzania, Rwanda, Burundi)
Taxonomy
Taxonomy
Graphium almansor belongs to a species group with 16 members. All are very similar The species group members are:
- Graphium abri Smith & Vane-Wright, 2001
- Graphium adamastor (Boisduval, 1836)
- Graphium agamedes (Westwood, 1842)
- Graphium almansor (Honrath, 1884)
- Graphium auriger (Butler, 1876)
- Graphium aurivilliusi (Seeldrayers, 1896)
- Graphium fulleri (Grose-Smith, 1883)
- Graphium hachei (Dewitz, 1881)
- Graphium kigoma Carcasson, 1964
- Graphium olbrechtsi Berger, 1950
- Graphium poggianus (Honrath, 1884)
- Graphium rileyi Berger, 1950
- Graphium schubotzi (Schultze, 1913)
- Graphium simoni (Aurivillius, 1899),
- Graphium ucalegon (Hewitson, 1865)[
- Graphium ucalegonides (Staudinger, 1884)
References
- ^ Honrath, E. G. 1884. Neue Rhopalocera. Berliner Entomologiche Zeitschrift 28: 203-212.
- ^ Graphium, Site of Markku Savela
- ^ Afrotropical Butterflies: File C – Papilionidae - Tribe Leptocercini
- ^ Ungemach, H. 1932. Contribution a l’etude des Lepidopteres d’Abyssinie. Memoires de la Societe des Sciences Naturelles (et Physiques) du Maroc 32: 1-122.
- ^ Karsch, F. 1895 Aethiopische Rhopaloceren. I. Entomologische Nachrichten. Berlin 21: 275- 286.
- ^ Gaede, M. 1915a. Neue afrikanische Lepidoptera des Berliner Zoologischen Museums.Internationale Entomologische Zeitschrift 9: 38-40; 71-74.
- ^ Lathy, P.I. 1906 A contribution towards the knowledge of African Rhopalocera.Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 1906: 1-10..
- Carcasson, R.H 1960 The Swallowtail Butterflies of East Africa (Lepidoptera,Papilionidae). Journal of the East Africa Natural History Society pdf Key to East Africa members of the species group, diagnostic and other notes and figures. (Permission to host granted by The East Africa Natural History Society
- Lewis, H. L., 1974 Butterflies of the World ISBN 0-245-52097-X page 89, figure 2.
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