Graphium evemon, the blue jay, lesser jay, or pale green triangle is a species of tropical butterfly found in India, Indonesia, and Malaysia.[3][4]

Blue jay
Graphium evemon eventus
Graphium evemon lebar
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Papilionidae
Genus: Graphium
Species:
G. evemon
Binomial name
Graphium evemon
Boisduval, 1836
Synonyms[2]
  • Papilio evemon Fruhstorfer, 1901
  • Arisbe evemon Page & Treadaway, 2011 [1]

Very similar to Graphium eurypylus, evemon is nevertheless an independent species. The scent-wool of the male always forms a narrow stripe hidden in the fold, the upperside of the abdomen is also never dusted with white in large males, the last submarginal spot of the forewing above is absent or at most weakly indicated and the harpe of the male genitalia is always recognisable by the long and more basally placed ventral process; moreover, in Malayan specimens the red costal spot on the under surface of the hindwing is always absent. The female is similar to the male. Karl Jordan in Seitz ( pages 97, 98) provides a description differentiating evemon from nearby taxa and dilineates the then known subspecies. [5]

Images of evemon and similar species

Subspecies edit

  • G. e. evemon Java
  • G. e. albociliatis (Fruhstorfer, 1901) (Assam - North Laos, North Vietnam)
  • G. e. igneolus (Fruhstorfer, 1901) (Nias)
  • G. e. eventus (Fruhstorfer, 1908) (South Burma, Thailand, Peninsular Malaya, Langkawi Island, Sumatra, Banka, Borneo)
  • G. e. orithia Jordan, 1909 (Philippines (Mapun))
  • G. e. hetaerias (Jordan, 1937) (Siberut)
  • G. evemon lebar (Page & Treadaway 2011) Karimati Island, Indonesia [6]

See also edit

References edit

  1. ^ Malcolm G. P. Page & Colin G. Treadaway , 2013 Revisional notes on the Arisbe eurypylus species group (Lepidoptera: Papilionoidea: Papilionidae) Stuttgarter Beiträge zur Naturkunde A, Neue Serie 7: 253–284; Stuttgart, 30.IV.2014. 253 pdf
  2. ^ "Graphium evemon - Synonyms - Encyclopedia of Life". Encyclopedia of Life. Retrieved 24 January 2017.
  3. ^ Collins, N. Mark; Morris, Michael G. (1985). Threatened Swallowtail Butterflies of the World: The IUCN Red Data Book. Gland & Cambridge: IUCN. ISBN 978-2-88032-603-6 – via Biodiversity Heritage Library.
  4. ^ "Graphium evemon - Maps - Encyclopedia of Life". Encyclopedia of Life. Retrieved 24 January 2017.
  5. ^ Seitz , A. Band 9: Abt. 2, Die exotischen Großschmetterlinge, Die indo-australischen Tagfalter, 1927, 1197 Seiten 177 Tafeln   This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
  6. ^ Malcolm G. P. Page and Colin G. Treadaway, 2011 New subspecies of Papilionidae from South-east Asia (Lepidoptera: Papilionidae) Nachr. entomol. Ver. Apollo, N.F. 31 (4): 201–205 (2011) pdf