Papilio grosesmithi
Papilio grosesmithi is a butterfly of the family of Swallowtail Butterfly ( Papilionidae ), which is found only in Madagascar.
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Features
The moths reach a wingspan of 90 to 100 millimeters. The fore wings are black and are pollinated in the basal region strongly with yellow scales. In the Submarginalregion is from the apex to the inner edge, a series of yellow spots, which stains towards the edge are constantly increasing. Next to it is on the upper third of the wing, seen from the outer edge, a further series of much larger, yellow and elliptical spots by the Postdiskalregion to Diskalregion and finally to the inner edge. On the rest of the wing a few, yellow and different-sized spots are distributed. The hind wings are black. The heavily serrated outer edge has a tail extension. Between Submarginalregion and Postdiskalregion there are several medium-sized, yellow moon spots. The yellow, large, elliptical spots of the forewing fuse on the rear wing to a binding, which direction inner edge becomes increasingly thinner and includes a brown eye with some blue paint on the front edge. Another eye is located in the Analwinkel. This is black, red and blue. The basal region and the area between the moon spots and binding is strongly dusted with yellow scales.
The underside of the forewing has a strong resemblance to the top. All spots are much more pronounced. The underside of the hind wings also resembles strongly the top, but all features are to a larger extent. The underside is no longer pollinated and the region around the body is marked by a yellow zone, by which, as also drill through the rest of the wing, black cores. Intermediate bonding and moon spots are numerous spots that are yellow, blue and black.
There is in wing pattern no gender differences, both have the same wing drawings and the same body, which is black, are bearing yellow stripes.
Similar Species
Occurrence and distribution
Papilio grosesmithi is endemic in western Madagascar and occurs there in deciduous forests.
Endangering
Papilio grosesmithi applies on the red list of threatened species as threatened. (As of 2008)