Byasa laos

Species of butterfly

Byasa laos
Conservation status

Near Threatened  (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Papilionidae
Genus: Byasa
Species:
B. laos
Binomial name
Byasa laos
(Riley & Godfrey, 1921)
Synonyms
  • Atrophaneura laos Riley & Godfrey, 1921[1]

Byasa laos, the Lao windmill, is a species of butterfly from the family Papilionidae. The species was first described by Norman Denbigh Riley and Edward John Godfrey in 1921.[2]

The species is found in Laos and northern Thailand, of Southeast Asia region.[3]

Status

Said to be very rare,[4] but status not known with any certainty.[5] More data required for conservation assessment.[6]

See also

References

  1. ^ Savela, Markku. "Atrophaneura laos Riley & Godfrey, 1921". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved January 12, 2019.
  2. ^ Häuser, Christoph L.; de Jong, Rienk; Lamas, Gerardo; Robbins, Robert K.; Smith, Campbell; Vane-Wright, Richard I. (28 July 2005). "Papilionidae – revised GloBIS/GART species checklist (2nd draft)". Entomological Data Information System. Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde Stuttgart, Germany. Archived from the original on 9 September 2010. Retrieved 21 June 2013.
  3. ^ Atrophaneura laos (Riley & Godfrey, 1921)
  4. ^ Lekagul, B., Askins, K., Nabhitabhata, J. and Samruadkit, A. (1977). Field Guide to the Butterflies of Thailand. Association for the Conservation of Wildlife, Bangkok.
  5. ^ D'Abrera, B. (1982). Butterflies of the Oriental Region. Part I. Papilionidae and Pieridae. Hill House, Victoria, Australia, xxxi + 244 pp.
  6. ^ Collins, N. Mark; Morris, Michael G. (1985). Threatened Swallowtail Butterflies of the World: The IUCN Red Data Book. Gland & Cambridge: IUCN. ISBN 978-2-88032-603-6 – via Biodiversity Heritage Library.
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Atrophaneura
  • A. aidoneus (lesser batwing)
  • A. dixoni
  • A. horishana (aurora swallowtail)
  • A. kuehni
  • A. luchti
  • A. nox (Malayan batwing)
  • A. priapus (Priapus batwing)
  • A. schadenbergi
  • A. semperi
  • A. sycorax
  • A. veruna (common batwing)
  • A. zaleucus
Byasa
  • B. adamsoni (Adamson's rose)
  • B. alcinous (Chinese windmill)
  • B. crassipes (black windmill)
  • B. daemonius
  • B. dasarada (great windmill)
  • B. hedistus
  • B. impediens
  • B. laos
  • B. latreillei (rose windmill)
  • B. mencius
  • B. nevilli (Nevill's windmill)
  • B. plutonius (Chinese windmill)
  • B. polla (De Niceville's windmill)
  • B. polyeuctes (common windmill)
  • B. rhadinus
Losaria
  • L. coon (common clubtail)
  • L. palu (Palu swallowtail)
  • L. rhodifer (Andaman clubtail)
  • L. neptunus (yellow-bodied club-tail)
Pachliopta
  • P. adamas
  • P. aristolochiae (common rose)
  • P. antiphus
  • P. atropos
  • P. hector (crimson rose)
  • P. jophon (Sri Lanka rose)
  • P. kotzebuea (pink rose)
  • P. eytensis
  • P. liris
  • P. mariae
  • P. oreon
  • P. pandiyana (Malabar rose)
  • P. phlegon
  • P. polydorus (red-bodied swallowtail)
  • P. polyphontes
  • P. strandi
Taxon identifiers
Byasa laos
Atrophaneura laos


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