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Papilionidae 77a0386 – 4176   Pterourus glaucus (Linnaeus, 1758)

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Similar Species: Pinned specimens of related species. (Hint: select View by Region on the related species page.) Synonymy: glaucus (Linnaeus, 1758) (Papilio) - MONA 1983: 4176 ssp. a. glaucus (Linnaeus, 1758) (Papilio) - MONA 1983: 4176  ajax; (Linnaeus, 1758) (Papilio) (in part); unavail. (synonym of ssp. glaucus)  alcidamus (Cramer, 1775) (Papilio) (synonym of ssp. glaucus)  antilochus (Linnaeus, 1758) (Papilio) (synonym of ssp. glaucus)  delunaris (Schultz, 1908) (Papilio) (synonym of ssp. glaucus)  dietzi (Gunder, 1927) (Papilio) (synonym of ssp. glaucus)  ehrmanni (McDunnough, 1938) (Papilio) (synonym of ssp. glaucus)  gerhardi (Gunder, 1927) (Papilio) (synonym of ssp. glaucus)  imperfecta (Reiff, 1911) (Papilio) (synonym of ssp. glaucus)  lauri (Fabricius, 1938) (Papilio) (synonym of ssp. glaucus)  niger (Hering, 1912) (Papilio) (synonym of ssp. glaucus)  nigra (Scott, 1981) (Papilio) (synonym of ssp. glaucus)  paupercula (Reiff, 1911) (Papilio) (synonym of ssp. glaucus)  perfulva (Schultz, 1908) (Papilio) (synonym of ssp. glaucus)  turnus (Linnaeus, 1771) (Papilio) (synonym of ssp. glaucus)  wheeleri (Reiff, 1911) (Papilio) (synonym of ssp. glaucus) ssp. b. maynardi (Gauthier, 1984) (Papilio)  australis (Maynard, 1891) (Papilio) (synonym of ssp. maynardi) Taxonomic Notes: Pterourus glaucus (Linnaeus, 1758): The genus name Pterourus was treated as a synonym of Papilio in Hodges et al. (1983) (Checklist). Pelham (in Pohl & Nanz (eds.) 2023) treated Pterourus a valid genus following Zhang et al. (2019) and several previous authors, notably Miller & Brown (1981). Condamine et al. (2023), a work published after the cutoff for additions to Pohl & Nanz (eds.) (2023), recognized Pterourus as a subgenus of Papilio.

References

Barcode of Life (BOLD) - Caution: DNA barcode provides evidence of relatedness, not proof of identification, and some BOLD specimens shown may not be sequenced. Condamine, F.L., R. Allio, E. L. Reboud, J.R. Dupuis, E.F.A. Toussaint, N. Mazet, S-J. Hu, D.S. Lewis, K. Kunte, A.M. Cotton, F.A.H. Sperling, 2023. A comprehensive phylogeny and revised taxonomy illuminate the origin and diversification of the global radiation of Papilio (Lepidoptera: Papilionidae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 183: 1-22. Species Page at BugGuide.Net Species Page at the Butterflies of America

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