Graphium confucius Hu, Duan & Cotton 2018, stat. rev.
- 1. Institute of International Rivers and Eco-security, Yunnan University, Kunming, 650500, China & Yunnan Key Laboratory of International Rivers and Transboundary Eco-security, Yunnan University, Kunming, 650500, China
- 2. 86 / 2 Moo 5, Tambon Nong Kwai, Hang Dong, Chiang Mai, Thailand
- 3. Museo de Historia Natural, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Apartado 14 - 0434, Lima- 14, Peru
- 4. School of Agriculture, Yunnan University, Kunming, 650500, China
- 5. Kunming Youning Biotech Co., Ltd, Kunming, 650031, China
Description
16. Graphium confucius Hu, Duan & Cotton, 2018 stat. rev.
Graphium (Pazala) confucius Hu, Duan & Cotton, 2018; in Hu et al., Zootaxa, 4441 (3): 426; TL: ‘Xichong, Kunming, C. Yunnan, China’.
Distribution: commonly found in most parts of Yunnan above 1,800 m; widely distributed in C. China; also found in N. Vietnam.
Note: Huang (2023) placed Graphium confucius as a subspecies of G. mandarinus based on variability of genitalia characters and specimens that he regarded as hybrids from W. Sichuan, where both taxa are sympatric. However, G. mandarinus is univoltine whereas G. confucius has three generations per year. The supposed hybrids are actually spring generation G. confucius which are identical to overwintering offspring obtained from the early stages of Kunming G. confucius reared by Zhang et al. (2018). As stated by Hu et al. (2018) the male and female genitalia of these species are variable, but they can be distinguished on consistent wing shape and pattern characters, which correlate with differences in COI sequences between the two taxa. Graphium confucius stat. rev. is here confirmed as a separate species to G. mandarinus.
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Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Hu, Duan & Cotton
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Lepidoptera
- Family
- Papilionidae
- Genus
- Graphium
- Species
- confucius
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic status
- stat. nov.
References
- Hu, S. J., Cotton, A. M., Condamine, F. L., Duan, K., Wang, R. J., Hsu, Y. F., Zhang, X. & Cao, J. (2018) Revision of Pazala Moore, 1888: the Graphium (Pazala) mandarinus (Oberth ¸ r, 1879) group, with treatments of known taxa and descriptions of new species and new subspecies (Lepidoptera: Papilionidae). Zootaxa, 4441 (3), 401 - 446. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 4441.3.1
- Huang, H. (2023) New or little known butterflies from China - 5 (Lepidoptera: Papilionidae, Pieridae, Nymphalidae, Lycaenidae et Hesperiidae). Neue Entomologische Nachrichten, 82, 93 - 214.
- Zhang, H. H., Duan, K. & Hu, S. J. (2018) On the Immature Stages of Graphium (Pazala) confucius Hu, Duan & Cotton, 2018 Observed in Kunming, Yunnan, China. Butterflies, 79, 18 - 25.