Pharmacophagus
Appearance
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Pharmacophagus | |
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Near Toliara, Madagascar | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Papilionidae |
Subfamily: | Papilioninae |
Tribe: | Troidini |
Genus: | Pharmacophagus Haase, 1891 |
Species: | P. antenor
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Binomial name | |
Pharmacophagus antenor (Drury, 1775)
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Pharmacophagus antenor, the Madagascar giant swallowtail, is a butterfly from the family Papilionidae. As the common name implies, it is large (12– to 14-cm wingspan) and endemic to Madagascar. It is the only species in the genus Pharmacophagus.
The larvae feed on Aristolochia acuminata and Quisqualis grandidieri.
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Near Toliara, Madagascar
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Specimen at the National Zoological Museum of China
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chrysalis, Isalo National Park, Madagascar
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empty chrysalis, Isalo National Park, Madagascar
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Feeding
Further reading
[edit]- Hancock, E.G., Broadsmith-Brown, G., Douglas, A.S. & Vane-Wright, R.I. 2008. William Hunter's Museum and discovery of the Madagascan pipevine swallowtail butterfly, Pharmacophagus antenor (Drury, 1773). Antenna, Chiswell Green32(1): 10–17.
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