Subspecies Graphium agamemnon ligatum (Rothschild, 1895)

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• Papilio agamemnon ligatus Rothschild, L.W. 1895. A revision of the Papilios of the eastern hemisphere, exclusive of Africa. Novitates Zoologicae 2(3): 167-463 pl. 6 [451].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH ♂, Papua New Guinea (as New Guinea in original description; Waigeu Is. and Aru Is., Moluccas, Indonesia, Muyua (as Woodlark Is.), Solomon Sea Is. and QLD also mentioned).
  Paratype(s) BMNH 9♂ 16♀
  Comment: Rothschild in the original description mentioned many specimens and also mentioned a type; Parsons, M.J. 1998. The Butterflies of Papua New Guinea; their systematics and biology. San Diego : Academic Press 736 pp. [247] (mentioned a syntype).

  Type locality references:

  Parsons, M.J. 1998. The Butterflies of Papua New Guinea; their systematics and biology. San Diego : Academic Press 736 pp.
• Papilio agamemnon atreus Fruhstorfer, H. 1903. Verzeichnis der in Tonkin, Annam und Siam gesammelten Papilioniden und Besprechung verwandter Formen. Berliner Entomologische Zeitschrift 47(3–4): 167-234 [219].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) whereabouts unknown 2♂ 4♀, Kiriwina, Solomon Sea Is. and Fergusson, D'Entrecasteaux Is., Papua New Guinea (in original description)
  Comment: Fruhstorfer in the original description indicated that he had several specimens.
• Papilio agamemnon mynion Fruhstorfer, H. 1906. Neue Papilioniden. Entomologische Zeitschrift 20(2): 9-10 [10] [Fruhstorfer named this subspecies referring to Rothschild's Queensland paratypes of ligatus Rothschild; Rothschild, L.W. 1895. A revision of the Papilios of the eastern hemisphere, exclusive of Africa. Novitates Zoologicae 2(3): 167–463 pl. 6 [451]].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BMNH 5♂ 5♀, Queensland (designated in original description)
  Comment: the syntypes of mynion are those paratypes of ligatus which came from Queensland.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Waterhouse, G.A. & Lyell, G. 1914. The Butterflies of Australia: a monograph of the Australian Rhopalocera introducing a complete scheme of structural classification, and giving descriptions and illustrations of all the butterflies found in Australia, including a number now recorded for the first time. Sydney : Angus & Robertson 239 pp. 38 pls + 3 unnumbered colour pls. [Date published 25 July 1914] [168]
• Parsons, M.J. 1998. The Butterflies of Papua New Guinea; their systematics and biology. San Diego : Academic Press 736 pp. [247] (regarded obliteratus Lathy, 1899 as a synonym)

 

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Torres Strait Ils, Cape York to Yeppoon, QLD, extralimital distribution—Indonesia (Aru Islands, Irian Jaya), Papua New Guinea.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

Qld: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Gulf Plains (GUP), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), NSW North Coast (NNC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Queensland: N Gulf, NE coastal
• Indonesia
  • Aru Islands
  • Irian Jaya
• Papua New Guinea

Ecological Descriptors

Larva: herbivore.

 

General References

Common, I.F.B. & Waterhouse, D.F. 1981. Butterflies of Australia. Sydney : Angus & Robertson xiv 682 pp. 49 pls. [241] (biology)

Jordan, K. 1909. The Indo-Australian Rhopalocera. [Papilio]. pp. 25-112 in Seitz, A. (ed.). The Macrolepidoptera of the World: a systematic description of the hitherto known macrolepidoptera. Stuttgart : Alfred Kernen Vol. 9. [publication date: Griffin, F.J. 1936. The contents of the parts and the dates of appearance of Seitz' Gross-Schmetterlinge der Erde (The Macrolepidoptera of the World), Lieferungen 1 to 130 Palaearctic and 1 to 575 exotic. Vols 1 to 16, 1907–1935. Transactions of the Royal Entomological Society of London 85(10): 243–279] [101] (description, distribution, comparison with other subspecies)

Tillyard, R.J. 1926. The Insects of Australia and New Zealand. Sydney : Angus & Robertson Ltd 560 pp. [460] (subsequent mispelling of ligatus as ligathus)

Tsukada, E. & Nishiyama, Y. 1982. Butterflies of the South East Asian Islands. I Papilionidae. Japan : Plapac 457 pp. [494] (biology of Graphium agamemnon, referred Australian specimens to subspecies Graphium agamemnon mynion (Fruhstorfer, 1906))

Waterhouse, G.A. 1937. Presidential address: The biology and taxonomy of the Australasian butterflies. Report of the Australian and New Zealand Association for the Advancement of Science 23: 101-133 [also issued as a repaginated separate in 1938] [128]

Waterhouse, G.A. & Lyell, G. 1914. The Butterflies of Australia: a monograph of the Australian Rhopalocera introducing a complete scheme of structural classification, and giving descriptions and illustrations of all the butterflies found in Australia, including a number now recorded for the first time. Sydney : Angus & Robertson 239 pp. 38 pls + 3 unnumbered colour pls. [Date published 25 July 1914] [168] (biology)

 

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