• Source: Graphium glycerion

Graphium glycerion, the spectacle swordtail, is a species of butterfly found in the Indomalayan realm (northern India, China, Thailand, Laos and northern Vietnam). The species was first described by George Robert Gray in 1831.




Subspecies


G. g glycerion (Nepal, Sikkim, Assam)
G. g. caschmirensis (Rothschild, 1895) (north-western India)
G. g. kimurai Murayama, 1982 (northern Thailand)
G. g. phangana (Okano, 1986) (northern Thailand)




Taxonomy


It may be a synonym of Graphium mandarinus Collins & Morris. It is however treated as a "good species" by Koiwaya. A further problem is that the name glycerion is permanently invalid as a junior primary homonym of Papilio glycerion Borkhausen, 1788.
Graphium glycerion is very little known and as with Graphium mandarinus, G. tamerlanus, G. phidias and G. olbrechtsi few specimens exist.




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External links



Butterfly Corner — Images from Naturhistorisches Museum Wien

Kata Kunci Pencarian:

• Graphium glycerion
• List of butterflies of Thailand
• Graphium (butterfly)
• List of butterflies of China (Papilionidae)
• Graphium mandarinus
• List of butterflies of Nepal
• List of butterflies of the Korean Peninsula