Papilio demoleus subsp. demoleus Linnaeus 1758
Creators: name: Hu, Shao-Ji
name: Cotton, Adam M.
name: Lamas, Gerardo
name: Duan, Kuang
name: Zhang, Xin
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Papilionidae
Papilio
Papilio demoleus
Papilio demoleus demoleus linnaeus, 1758

description: 69a. Papilio demoleus demoleus Linnaeus, 1758
Papilio erithonius Cramer, 1779; Uitl. Kapellen, 3 (20): 67, pl. 232, f. A–B; TL: ‘en Chine, à Java & sur la Côte de Coromandel’ [China, Java and coastal S.E. India].
Papilio epius Fabricius, 1793; Ent. Syst., 3 (1): 35; TL: ‘China’.
Papilio erithonius var. Demoleinus Oberth ü r, 1879; Ét. Ent., 4: 57; TL: ‘Chine’ [China].
Pap. [ilio] demoleus libanius Fruhstorfer, 1908; Ent. Z., 22 (35): 141; TL: ‘Takau, Formosa’ [Kaohsiung, Taiwan, China].
P. [apilio] d. [emoleus] demoleus ab. rubropunctata Dufrane, 1946; Bull. Annls. Soc. R. ent. Belg., 82 (5/6): 112; TL: ‘ Cho Ganh, Tonkin’ [Cho Ganh, Ninh Bình, N. Vietnam]. [IFS]
P. [apilio] d. [emoleus] demoleus ab. obliterata Dufrane, 1946; Bull. Annls. Soc. R. ent. Belg., 82 (5/6): 112; TL: ‘Phu-lang-thuong, Tonkin’ [Bac Giang, N. Vietnam]. [IFS]
P. [apilio] d. [emoleus] demoleus ab. jordani Dufrane, 1946; Bull. Annls. Soc. R. ent. Belg., 82 (5/6): 113; TL: ‘ région de Hanoï, Tonkin’ [Hanoi, N. Vietnam]. [IFS]
P. [apilio] d. [emoleus] demoleus ab. bipunctata Dufrane, 1946; Bull. Annls. Soc. R. ent. Belg., 82 (5/6): 113; TL: ‘ Cho Ganh, Tonkin’ [Cho Ganh, Ninh Bình, N. Vietnam]. [IFS]
P. [apilio] d. [emoleus] demoleus ab. punctata Dufrane, 1946; Bull. Annls. Soc. R. ent. Belg., 82 (5/6): 113; TL: ‘ Hoa binh, Tonkin’ [Hoa Binh, N. Vietnam]. [IFS]
P. [apilio] d. [emoleus] demoleus ab. tripunctata Dufrane, 1946; Bull. Annls. Soc. R. ent. Belg., 82 (5/6): 113; TL: ‘ Hoa binh, Tonkin’ [Hoa Binh, N. Vietnam]. [IFS]
P. [apilio] d. [emoleus] demoleus ab. coomani Dufrane, 1946; Bull.Annls. Soc. R. ent. Belg., 82 (5/6): 113; TL: ‘ Hoa binh, Tonkin’ [Hoa Binh, N. Vietnam]. [IFS]
P. [apilio] d. [emoleus] demoleus ab. lemoulti Dufrane, 1946; Bull. Annls. Soc. R. ent. Belg., 82 (5/6): 113; TL: ‘ Longt Che Ou, Chine’ [Longzhou, Guangxi, China]. [IFS]
P. [apilio] d. [emoleus] demoleus ab. joannisi Dufrane, 1946; Bull. Annls. Soc. R. ent. Belg., 82 (5/6): 113; TL: ‘ Cho Ganh, Tonkin’ [Cho Ganh, Ninh Bình, N. Vietnam]. [IFS]
P. [apilio] d. [emoleus] demoleus ab. ochrea Dufrane, 1946; Bull. Annls. Soc. R. ent. Belg., 82 (5/6): 113; TL: ‘ Longt Che Ou, Chine’ [Longzhou, Guangxi, China]. [IFS]
Papilio demoleus var. flavosignatus Heydemann, 1954; Z. Wien. ent. Ges., 39 (11): 388; TL: ‘Dschellalabad, Afganistan’ [Jalalabad, Afghanistan].
Distribution: commonly found in lowlands and river valleys in W., S.W., C., S., and S.E. Yunnan; also found in S. China (including Taiwan Island) and N. Indochina through India westward to the Middle East.
description: Published as part of Hu, Shao-Ji, Cotton, Adam M., Lamas, Gerardo, Duan, Kuang & Zhang, Xin, 2023, Checklist of Yunnan Papilionidae (Lepidoptera: Papilionoidea) with nomenclatural notes and descriptions of new subspecies, pp. 1-69 in Zootaxa 5362 (1) on pages 43-44, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5362.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10149411