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词条 Papilio pelaus
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  1. Description

  2. Subspecies

  3. Ecozone

  4. See also

  5. References

  6. External links

{{Taxobox
|image = Prickly ash swallowtail (Papilio pelaus pelaus) underside.JPG
|image_caption = P. p. pelaus at Strawberry Hill, Jamaica
|regnum = Animalia
|phylum = Arthropoda
|classis = Insecta
|ordo = Lepidoptera
|familia = Papilionidae
|genus = Papilio
|species = P. pelaus
|binomial = Papilio pelaus
|binomial_authority = Fabricius, 1775
|synonyms =
  • Papilio ornofagus Weidemeyer, 1863
  • Papilio imerius Godart, 1819
  • Papilio augias Ménétriés, 1832

}}Papilio pelaus, the prickly ash swallowtail, is a species of swallowtail butterfly from the genus Papilio that is found in Jamaica, Hispaniola, Cuba and Puerto Rico.[1]

Description

With spatulate tail. Sexes similar, but the markings in the female somewhat enlarged and on the hindwing more numerous than in the male. Black, forewing with oblique white band from the costa to the anal angle: hindwing with complete (female) or incomplete (male) row of pale red submarginal spots: beneath there are usually also small discal spots present, which sometimes in the female also occur above.[2]

Subspecies

  • Papilio pelaus pelaus (Jamaica)
  • Papilio pelaus imerius Godart, 1819 (Hispaniola) the band of the forewing is narrower anteriorly, on the other hand its last spot is on the whole broader than in the nominate and the spots on the hindwing are smaller.
  • Papilio pelaus atkinsi Bates, 1935 (Cuba)
  • Papilio pelaus puertoricoensis (Möhn, 1999) (Puerto Rico)

Ecozone

This species is located in the Neotropical ecozone.

See also

  • List of butterflies of Jamaica

References

1. ^Papilio at Funet
2. ^Jordan, K., in Seitz, A. (1907). The Macrolepidoptera of the World. 5: The Macrolepidoptera of the American faunistic region. Papilionidae 1-45
  • Lewis, H. L., 1974 Butterflies of the World {{ISBN|0-245-52097-X}} Page 25, figure 9
  • F. Martin Brown and Bernard Heineman, Jamaica and its Butterflies (E. W. Classey, London 1972), plate VIII

External links

  • Butterflycorner Images from Naturhistorisches Museum Wien
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