Atrophaneura sycorax is a species of butterfly from the family Papilionidae that is found from southern Burma to Peninsular Malaysia, and in Sumatra and western Java.
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| A. sycorax depicted in Rhopalocera Malayana (figure 10) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Papilionidae |
| Genus: | Atrophaneura |
| Species: | A. sycorax
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| Binomial name | |
| Atrophaneura sycorax (Grose-Smith, 1885)
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The wingspan is 130–140 mm. The wings are black. There is a wide dull-white marking on each of the hindwings. The body is completely covered in yellow hair. Females can be black or dark brown. The wing veins are bordered in white.[2]
Description in Seitz edit
P. sycorax Gr.-Sm. (= egertoni Dist.) (17 a, b). Head and collar white; abdomen above bluish grey with a row of black dots at each side, beneath yellow. Upper surface of the male velvety black, of the female much paler and more metallic; hindwing from near the apex of the cell to the black marginal band blue-grey, with a row of black discal spots; beneath this area is much lighter and extends to the margin, the posterior black marginal spots being separated from one another and from the margin. — West and East Sumatra and Malay Peninsula, in hilly country. Karl Jordan in Seitz (page 29) [3]
Biology edit
The butterfly flies high and quickly, and is especially often taken at flowering trees in the woods The larvae feed on Aristolochia species: A. cathcartii, A. coadunata, A. singalangensis and Thottea species.
Subspecies edit
- Atrophaneura sycorax sycorax (Sumatra)
- Atrophaneura sycorax egertoni (Distant, 1886) (southern Burma to Peninsular Malaya)
- Atrophaneura sycorax pariwononis Tsukada & Nishiyama (western Java)
References edit
- ^ Atrophaneura at Funet
- ^ "ButterflyCorner.net". Archived from the original on 2012-09-19. Retrieved 2011-07-17.
- ^ Seitz , A. Band 9: Abt. 2, Die exotischen Großschmetterlinge, Die indo-australischen Tagfalter, 1927, 1197 Seiten 177 Tafeln pdf
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