Losaria neptunus
| Losaria neptunus | |
|---|---|
| L. n. doris | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Papilionidae |
| Genus: | Losaria |
| Species: | L. neptunus
|
| Binomial name | |
| Losaria neptunus (Guérin-Méneville, 1840)
| |
| Synonyms | |
| |
Losaria neptunus, the yellow-bodied club-tail or yellow club-tail, is a species of butterfly from the family Papilionidae that is found in Sumatra, south Burma, north Borneo and the Philippines[1]
The wingspan is 100–120 mm (3.9–4.7 in). The wings are dark brown or black. The lower half of the abdomen is yellow. It has white markings on the forewings and a red patch on each hindwing.[2]
The larvae feed on Thottea and Aristolochia species.
Subspecies
- L. n. manasukkiti (Cotton, Racheli and Sukhumalind, 2005) - Ranong and southernmost Myanmar
- L. n. neptunus (Guérin-Méneville, 1840) - West Malaysia, southernmost Thailand
- L. n. creber (van Eecke, 1914) - Simeulue
- L. n. fehri (Honrath, 1892) - Nias
- L. n. lepida (Hanafusa, 1994) - Tanahmasa Island in the Batu Islands
- L. n. eminens (Hanafusa, 1990) - Sipora
- L. n. siborangitana (Tsukada and Nishiyama, 1980) - Northern Sumatra
- L. n. padanganus (Rothschild, 1908) - Western Sumatra
- L. n. doris (Rothschild, 1908) - Borneo
- L. n. dacasini (Schröder, 1976) - Palawan
- L. n. matbai (Schröder & Treadaway, 1990) - Tawi-Tawi
References
Media related to Atrophaneura neptunus at Wikimedia Commons