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Graphium weiskei goodenovii Rothschild, 1915

 

 

Taxonomy & Nomenclature

 

 

Conservation Status

Last record: 1912-1915

Rediscovered in 2015

 

Distribution

Goodenough Island, D'Entrecasteaux group, Papua New Guinea

 

Biology & Ecology

 

 

Hypodigm

 

 

Media

 

 

References

Original scientific description:

Rothschild, Walter. (1915). Lepidoptera collected by the British Ornithologists’ Union and Wollaston Expeditions in the Snow Mountains, southern Dutch New Guinea: Rep. Coll. Made by Brit. Ornith. Uni. Exp. & Wollaston Exp. Dutch N. Guinea, p. 4, pl. I, fig. 15.

 

Other references:

Müller, C. J. and Tennent, W. J. (1999). A new species of Graphium Scopoli (Lepidoptera: Papilionidae) from the Bismarck Archipelago, Papua New Guinea. Records of the Australian Museum 51(2): 161-168.

Parsons, M. J. P. (1998 "1999"). The Butterflies of Papua New Guinea. Their Systematics and Biology. London: Academic Press.

Tennent, W. J. and Mitchell, D. K. (2017). A brief historical account of an endemic swallowtail butterfly first collected a century ago on Goodenough Island (D'Entrecasteaux group) in Papua New Guinea. Archives of Natural History 44(1): 159-169. [Abstract]

http://extinctanimals.proboards.com/thread/22192/graphium-weiskei-ssp-goodenovii

 

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