Atrophaneura crassipes
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| Atrophaneura crassipes Oberthür, 1879 |
Black Windmill Atrophaneura crassipes is a beautiful butterfly found in India that belongs to the Windmills group of Atrophaneura, comprising tailed black swallowtail butterflies with white spots and red submarginal crescents.
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[edit] Range
North East India (Manipur), Myanmar (southern Shan states), northern Thailand, northern Laos, northern Vietnam (Tonkin) and possibly southern China.
[edit] Status
The Black Windmill is very rare and is protected by law in India. More information is required on this species.
[edit] Description
- Wingspan : 110 - 120mm.
- Black butterfly which is unmarked except for obscure red spots on the upper hindwing. The tail is red-tipped below.
Male upperside: fore wing dark fuliginous black, with black veins, a longitudinal streak between tho veins and streaks within the cell. Hind wing very narrow anteriorly and much prolonged posteriorly, exterior margin broadly scalloped, tail very broad and short; abdominal margin with a very long folded lappet, which when opened displays a lengthened greyish-white woolly andro-conial patch ; colour dull greyish black, with two upper marginal and two sub-anal lunules, tip of the tail very obscure dusky red. Underside: fore wing paler. Hind wing dull black, with the two upper and lower marginal lunules, an irregular-shaped anal lunule, and the tail tip bright crimson. Thorax and abdomen above black; front of head and thorax and abdomen beneath crimson; abdomen beneath with black segmental bands; hind tibiae very thick; antennae and legs black.[1]
[edit] Taxonomy
No separate subspecies have been described.
[edit] Habits
Recorded from Manipur between 1000 and 2500 feet.
[edit] References
- Collins, N.M. & Morris, M.G. (1985) Threatened Swallowtail Butterflies of the World. IUCN. ISBN 2-88032-603-6
- Evans, W.H. (1932) The Identification of Indian Butterflies. (2nd Ed), Bombay Natural History Society, Mumbai, India
- Haribal, Meena (1994) Butterflies of Sikkim Himalaya and their Natural History.
- Wynter-Blyth, M.A. (1957) Butterflies of the Indian Region, Bombay Natural History Society, Mumbai, India.
[edit] See also
- Lepidoptera
- Butterflies
- Papilionidae
- List of butterflies of India
- List of butterflies of India (Papilionidae)
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