Subspecies Ornithoptera priamus pronomus (Gray, [1853])

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• Papilio pronomus Gray, G.R. 1853. Catalogue of Lepidopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum. Papilionidae. London : British Museum (Natural History) Part 1 iii 84 pp., 14 pls.

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BMNH Rh10808 1♂, Cape York, QLD (designated in original description)
  Comment: originally described from both males and females; Gray, G.R. 1856. List of the Specimens of Lepidopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum. Part 1. Papilionidae. London : British Museum 106 pp. [2] (gave two males and one female collected by J. McGillivray from the voyage of the Rattlesnake in the BMNH); Howarth, T.G. 1977. A list of the type-specimens of Ornithoptera (Lepidoptera: Papilionidae) in the British Museum (Natural History). Bulletin of the British Museum of Natural History Entomol. 36(3): 153–169 [165] (listed a single syntype in BMNH).

  Type locality references:

  Gray, G.R. 1856. List of the Specimens of Lepidopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum. Papilionidae. London : British Museum (Natural History) Part 1 iii 106 pp.; Howarth, T.G. 1977. A list of the type-specimens of Ornithoptera (Lepidoptera: Papilionidae) in the British Museum (Natural History). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Entomol. 36(3): 153-169.

Ecological Descriptors

Larva: herbivore (associated flora: Aristolochia chalmersii O.C.Schmidt [ARISTOLOCHIACEAE]; Aristolochia tagala Cham. [ARISTOLOCHIACEAE]).

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