Pachliopta pandiyana

Malabar rose
CITES Appendix II (CITES)[1]
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Papilionidae
Genus: Pachliopta
Species:
P. pandiyana
Binomial name
Pachliopta pandiyana
(Moore, 1881)[2]
Synonyms

Atrophaneura pandiyana

Atrophaneura pandiyana, the Malabar rose or pandiyana's maculaturoviy machaon with white stripes ,[3] is a swallowtail butterfly belonging to the genus Pachliopta, the roses or red-bodied swallowtails.[3][4][5]

It is an important endemic butterfly of south India.[3][5]

Description

For a key to the terms used, see Glossary of entomology terms.

This was earlier considered a race of Pachliopta jophon found in Sri Lanka.

Race pandiyanus, Moore. "Though closely allied to A. jophon gray, this species is constantly different in pattern. The white colour of the forewings is much more extended, especially in the apical region, but also more shaded with black scales; the internervular black streaks between the median nervures (veins 4-6) are much longer, the white linear markings, in the cell reach the discocellular veinlets. On the hindwing the last discal white spot reaches mostly to the submedian nervure (vein 1), the anterior one is very large in the male, small or divided into two spots, or obliterated in the female...". (Rothschild, quoted in Bingham)[6][7][8]

Similar species

It resembles the common rose (Pachliopta aristolochiae) from which it can be differentiated by the much larger white patch on its hindwings.

Range[9]

Southern India. The butterfly does not associate much with the common rose, which it resembles. On the western slopes of the Nilgiris and elsewhere on the Western Ghats, the Malabar rose entirely displaces that most abundant butterfly.

Status

It is uncommon, but not considered to be threatened as a species. The species is locally common in the Western Ghats.

Taxonomy

  • A related species, Pachliopta jophon, once considered conspecific, flies in Sri Lanka.
  • No separate subspecies have been described.

Habitat

This butterfly is confined to the wet jungles of southern India and the Western Ghats, between 1,000 and 3,000 feet (300 and 910 m).

Habits

The flight of this butterfly resembles that of the common rose (Pachliopta aristolochiae). Early in the morning till about 10 am, it keeps low and feeds from flowers, usually those of the Lantana. Later in the day it flies high and is difficult to capture.

Life cycle

Appears to be single-brooded and is most common in September and October.

Food plants

The larval food plant is Thottea siliquosa (Aristolochiaceae).[10]

See also

Cited references

  1. ^ "Appendices | CITES". cites.org. Retrieved 2022-01-14.
  2. ^ 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.
  3. ^ a b c Varshney, R.; Smetacek, P. A Synoptic Catalogue of the Butterflies of India (2015 ed.). New Delhi: Butterfly Research Centre, Bhimtal and Indinov Publishing. p. 2.
  4. ^ Moore, Frederic (1881). Transactions of the Entomological Society of London. London: Royal Entomological Society of London. p. 500.
  5. ^ a b Savela, Markku. "Atrophaneura pandiyana (Moore, 1881)". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved July 3, 2018.
  6. ^ Public Domain One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain: Rothschild, Lionel Walter (1895). Novitates Zoologicae. Vol. II. A revision of the Papilios of the eastern hemisphere, exclusive of Africa. London: Natural History Museum at Tring. p. 234.
  7. ^ Bingham, C.T. (1907). The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma. Vol. II (1st ed.). London: Taylor and Francis, Ltd. pp. 22–23.
  8. ^ Moore, Frederic (1901–1903). Lepidoptera Indica. Vol. V. London: Lovell Reeve and Co. pp. 177–178.
  9. ^ International), Eresha Fernando (BirdLife; Moonen, Jan; Kunte, Krushnamegh; Kehimkar, Isaac; Tiple, Ashish; Jangid, Ashish (2019-02-28). "IUCN Red List of Threatened Species: Pachliopta pandiyana". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. doi:10.2305/iucn.uk.2020-2.rlts.t121973590a170544028.en. Retrieved 2021-05-20.
  10. ^ Ravikanthachari Nitin; V.C. Balakrishnan; Paresh V. Churi; S. Kalesh; Satya Prakash; Krushnamegh Kunte (2018-04-10). "Larval host plants of the buterfies of the Western Ghats, India". Journal of Threatened Taxa. 10 (4): 11502. doi:10.11609/jott.3104.10.4.11495-11550 – via JoTT.

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