Papilio demoleus | Linnaeus, 1758 |
TL: “Asia” [South China, Guangdong, Guangzhou] (2000 m.)
Upper side of wings has the ground colour black. The fore wing has the base below cell and basal half of latter so irrorated with yellow scales as to form more or less complete transverse dotted lines, two outwardly oblique yellow spots in cell and a curved spot at its upper apex; a spot at base and another beyond it in interspace 8; a discal transverse series of cream-yellow spots irregular in arrangement and size extends from interspace la to 8; the series interrupted in interspace 5 and the spot in interspace 7 double; this is followed by a sinuous postdiscal series of spots and an admarginal terminal series of smaller spots. In many specimens between the discal and postdiscal series the black ground-colour is irrorated with yellowish scales. Hind wing: base and an edging that decreases in width along the dorsal margin irrorated with yellow scales; followed by a broad medial yellow irregular band, a sinuous postdiscal series of outwardly emarginate yellow spots and a terminal series of smaller similarly coloured spots as on the fore wing. The inner margin of the medial band is curved inwards, the outer margin is very irregular and uneven; in the cell the band does not reach the apex, but beyond the cell there are one or more cream-yellow spots, and the black groundcolour is irrorated with yellowish scales; finally at the tornal angle there is an oval ochraceous-red spot emarginate on its inner side in the female and in both sexes surmounted by a blue lunule; while in interspace 7 between the medial band and the postdiscal spot there is a large ocellus-like spot of the black ground-colour more or less irrorated with blue scales.
The underside has the ground-colour similar, the cream-coloured markings paler and conspicuously larger. The markings differ from those on the upperside in that the forewing has the basal half of cell and base of wing below it with cream-coloured streaks that coalesce at base; irregular ochraceous spots in interspaces 5 to 8 and the discal series of spots complete not interrupted in interspace 5. On the underside of the hind wing, the black at base of wing and along the dorsal margin centred largely with pale cream-colour; the ocellus in interspace 7, the apex of the cell and the black groundcolour between the medial band and postdiscal markings in interspaces 2-6 centred with ochraceous, margined with blue.
Antennae dark reddish brown, touched with ochraceous on the innerside towards the club; head, thorax and abdomen dusky black, the head and thorax anteriorly streaked with cream-vellow: beneath: the palpi, thorax and abdomen cream-yellow with lateral longitudinal black lines on the last.
Habitat
- Farmland
- Gardens
- Oases
75 - 100 mm
- Local names
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Language Vernacular name Česky
Otakárek citrusový Deutsch
Indischer Citrus-Schwalbenschwanz English
Chequered Swallowtail English
Common Lime Butterfly English
Lime Butterfly English
Lime Swallowtail Français
Voilier échiquier Magyar
Citruspillangó Türkçe
Nusaybin Güzeli ไทย
หนอนมะนาว 中文
達摩鳳蝶 日本語
オナシアゲハ
- Primary hostplants
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Family Latin name Vernacular name Rutaceae Citrus Citrus Rutaceae Citrus aurantifolia Lime Rutaceae Citrus limon Lemon Rutaceae Citrus maxima Pomelo Rutaceae Citrus reticulata Mandarin orange Rutaceae Citrus sinensis Sweet Orange Rutaceae Clausena Rutaceae Glycosmis parviflora Rutaceae Glycosmis pentaphylla Rutaceae Murraya koenigii Curry tree Rutaceae Ruta graveolens Common Rue Rutaceae Toddalia asiatica Rutaceae Zanthoxylum nitidum Shiny-leaf prickly-ash Rutaceae Ziziphus mauritiana Chinese date
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- Subspecies
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Species Author Papilio (Princeps) demoleus demoleus Linnaeus, 1758 Papilio (Princeps) demoleus libanius Fruhstorfer, 1908 Papilio (Princeps) demoleus malayanus Wallace, 1865 Papilio (Princeps) demoleus novoguineensis (Rothschild, 1908) Papilio (Princeps) demoleus sthenelus (Macleay, 1826)
- Papilio (Princeps) demoleus is a member of the clade Papilio demodocus:
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Species Author Papilio (Princeps) demodocus Esper, 1798 Papilio (Princeps) demoleus Linnaeus, 1758 Papilio (Princeps) erithonioides (Grose-Smith, 1891) Papilio (Princeps) grosesmithi Rothschild, 1926 Papilio (Princeps) morondavana Grose-Smith, 1891
- Links
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Language Website Authors African Butterfly Database Butterflies of America A.Warren, K.Davis, M.Stangeland Butterflies of India Kunte, K., S. Sondhi, and P. Roy Butterflies of Indo-China Y.Inayoshi Butterfly Conservation South Australia Japanese Moths Lepiforum e. V.
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