Pachliopta aristolochiae atavus Moonen, 2016 (Papilionidae)
Feb 5, 2016 8:52:38 GMT
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Post by Adam Cotton on Feb 5, 2016 8:52:38 GMT
Jan Moonen has just published a paper describing a new subspecies of Pachliopta aristolochiae from the Natuna Islands, named ssp. atavus. On Natuna there are actually two very similar looking Pachliopta species, which were previously thought to be forms of the same. One is all black, and is currently treated as Pachliopta antiphus acuta, and the other with a white discal patch on the hindwing was originally described by Jordan (1909) as Pachliopta aristolochiae ab. atavus. Since this is an infrasubspecific name it cannot be used with original author and date at subspecies level. Moonen explains that atavus actually belongs to true mainland SE Asian Pachliopta aristolochiae. He designated the original Jordan specimen of ab. atavus in the BMNH as the holotype of the new subspecies, with a male and two female paratypes in the Naturalis (Leiden Museum) collection. It should also be noted that Jordan incorrectly stated that the type of ab. atavus is a female, but it is actually male.
Here is the abstract of the paper:
After the collections of NCB Naturalis, Leiden and the Zoological Museum
of Amsterdam were merged into the single collection of Naturalis
Biodiversity Center (NBC), the rearrangement of the Pachliopta collections
and the specimen data led to several interesting discoveries. Pachliopta
aristolochiae anadyomene occurs on North Sumatra and the islands Pulau
We, Pulau Breueh and Simeulue. The ranges of Pachliopta aristolochiae
and P. antiphus appear to overlap around North Sumatra and eastwards
to Pulau Natuna Besar. Jordan’s aberration atavus on Natuna is described
as the subspecies Pachliopta aristolochiae atavus ssp. nov., which occurs
together with Pachliopta antiphus acuta. For the subspecies of Pachliopta
antiphus on Palawan, Dumaran, Cuyo and Busuanga (Philippines), the
unavailable name brevicauda Staudinger is replaced by the available name
yoshikoae Okano. For Pachliopta adamas agricola Tsukada & Nishiyama,
there is material from a new locality: Pulau Kayuadi, besides the already
known Pulau Jampea. Pachliopta polyphontes polyphontes (Boisduval) also
occurs on three previously unrecorded islands: Muna, Buton and Binongko
(Tukangbesi Islands).
Citation:
Moonen, J. M. M. 2016. Notes on Pachliopta species in South East Asia (Lepidoptera: Papilionidae). Entomologische Berichten 76 (1): 15-20.
Here is the abstract of the paper:
After the collections of NCB Naturalis, Leiden and the Zoological Museum
of Amsterdam were merged into the single collection of Naturalis
Biodiversity Center (NBC), the rearrangement of the Pachliopta collections
and the specimen data led to several interesting discoveries. Pachliopta
aristolochiae anadyomene occurs on North Sumatra and the islands Pulau
We, Pulau Breueh and Simeulue. The ranges of Pachliopta aristolochiae
and P. antiphus appear to overlap around North Sumatra and eastwards
to Pulau Natuna Besar. Jordan’s aberration atavus on Natuna is described
as the subspecies Pachliopta aristolochiae atavus ssp. nov., which occurs
together with Pachliopta antiphus acuta. For the subspecies of Pachliopta
antiphus on Palawan, Dumaran, Cuyo and Busuanga (Philippines), the
unavailable name brevicauda Staudinger is replaced by the available name
yoshikoae Okano. For Pachliopta adamas agricola Tsukada & Nishiyama,
there is material from a new locality: Pulau Kayuadi, besides the already
known Pulau Jampea. Pachliopta polyphontes polyphontes (Boisduval) also
occurs on three previously unrecorded islands: Muna, Buton and Binongko
(Tukangbesi Islands).
Citation:
Moonen, J. M. M. 2016. Notes on Pachliopta species in South East Asia (Lepidoptera: Papilionidae). Entomologische Berichten 76 (1): 15-20.