Papilio protenor

Papilio protenor

Taxobox
name = Spangle



image_caption = "Papilio protenor demetrius"
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Arthropoda
classis = Insecta
ordo = Lepidoptera
familia = Papilionidae
genus = "Papilio"
species = "P. protenor"
binomial = "Papilio protenor"
binomial_authority = Cramer, 1775
The Spangle "Papilio protenor" is a beautiful butterfly found in India that belongs to the Swallowtail family.

Description

Male

"Upperside": velvety indigo-blue black, duller on the fore wing than on the hind wing. Fore wing with pale adnervular streaks broadened along the terminal margin and extended well into the cell. Hind wing: a broad pale yellowish-white subcostal streak; interspaces 4 to 6 irrorated with bluish scales; tornal angle marked with red.

"Underside": fore wing dull black; adnervular streaks distinctly grey and much broader than on the upperside. Hind wing: ground-colour as on the upperside, a large irregularly-shaped patch at the tornal angle that extends into interspace 2. and subterminal lunules in interspaces, 2, 6, and 7 dull pinkish-red, cell irrorated more or less with a sprinkling of blue scales; the tornal patch with a black, outwardly blue-edged, round medial spot, and interspaces 4 and 5 with subterminal irrorations of blue scales. Antenna black; head, thorax and abdomen dark brownish black.

Female

Similar to male.

"Upperside": groundcolour deep brownish black; adnervular streaks on fore wing yellowish; irroration of blue scales on outer portions of hind wing more dense; no white subcostal streak; red patch at tornal angle large with an oval medial black spot; another similar black spot subterminally in interspace 2 posteriorly bordered by a crescent-shaped red mark.

"Underside" similar to that in the male, differs in the adnervular streaks on the fore wing that are broader and paler; on the hind wing the tornal red patch is paler and larger, and is extended broadly anteriorly and outwards towards the termen into interspace 2; in the latter it coalesces with a broad subterminal black-centred red ocellus; the irroration of blue scales in interspace 5 with a small subterminal red lunule below it. Antennae, head, thorax and abdomen as in the male.Bingham, C. T. (1905) Fauna of British India. Butterflies. Volume 1]

Range

Northern Pakistan, Jammu & Kashmir, Garhwal Himalaya (Govind Wildlife Sanctuary), Sikkim, Assam, Bangladesh, Burma, southern China (including Hainan), northern Vietnam, northern Laos, Taiwan, North Korea, South Korea and Japan.

tatus

Common. Not Threatened. [Collins, N.M. & Morris, M.G. (1985) Threatened Swallowtail Butterflies of the World. IUCN. ISBN 2-88032-603-6]

Life history

Larva

"Green, with a yellow collar and brown lichen-like markings. Feeds on "Zanthoxylum alatum"." (Mackinnon quoted in Bingham.)

Pupa

"Some pupae are coloured like rough bark, others are uniformly green." (Mackinnon quoted in Bingham.)

References

ee also

*Papilionidae
*List of butterflies of India
*List of butterflies of India (Papilionidae)


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