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Byasa daemonius

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Species of butterfly

Byasa daemonius
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Papilionidae
Genus: Byasa
Species: B. daemonius
Binomial name
Byasa daemonius
(Alphéraky, 1895)
Synonyms
  • Papilio daemonius Alphéraky, 1895
  • Atrophaneura daemonius (Alphéraky, 1895)
  • Papilio alcinous plutonius ab. fatuus Rothschild, 1895
  • Papilio daemonius var. yunnana Oberthür, 1907

Byasa daemonius is a butterfly described by Sergei Alphéraky in 1895. It is found in Tibet and western China, that belongs to the windmills genus Byasa, comprising tailed black swallowtail butterflies with white spots and red submarginal crescents.

Subspecies

  • Byasa daemonius daemonius
  • Byasa daemonius yunnana (Oberthür, 1907) (Yunnan)

Status

Very little information is available and none on current status. Further research is required.

References

  1. ^ Häuser, Christoph L.; de Jong, Rienk; Lamas, Gerardo; Robbins, Robert K.; Smith, Campbell; Vane-Wright, Richard I. (28 July 2005). "Papilionidae – revised GloBIS/GART species checklist (2nd draft)". Entomological Data Information System. Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde Stuttgart, Germany. Archived from the original on 9 September 2010. Retrieved 21 June 2013.
  2. ^ Savela, Markku. "Atrophaneura daemonius (Alphéraky, 1895)". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved 6 December 2017.
Red-bodied swallowtails
Atrophaneura
Byasa
Losaria
Pachliopta
Taxon identifiers
Byasa daemonius


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