Graphium fulleri

Graphium fulleri is a butterfly in the family Papilionidae (swallowtails). It is found in Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, the Republic of the Congo, Angola, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Chad.^[3]

Graphium fulleri
Plate in Rhopalocera Exotica
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Papilionidae
Genus:	Graphium
Species:	G. fulleri
Binomial name
Graphium fulleri (Grose-Smith, 1883).[1][2]
Synonyms
Papilio fulleri Grose-Smith, 1883 Graphium (Arisbe) fulleri Papilio boulleti var. transiens Le Cerf, 1912 Papilio foersterius Strand, 1913 Papilio sanganus Strand, 1913 Papilio sanganoides Strand, 1913 Papilio sanganoides ab. divisimacula Strand, 1913 Papilio stetteni Strand, 1913 Graphium ucalegonides ucalegonides f. gabrieli Berger, 1950 Papilio boulleti Le Cerf, 1912 Papilio weberi Holland, 1917 Graphium ucalegonides beloni Darge, 1995

Description

The broad black marginal band of the hindwing is always ornamented with light spots. The wings have a common light median band, which does not reach the base of the hindwing and is interrupted in cellule 5 of the forewing. Hindwing beneath without black basal, dot in cellule 7 and consequently with only two such dots. Hindwing with 3—8 usually double sub¬marginal spots. The markings are light yellow; the median band formed almost exactly as in G. ucalegon-, cell of the forewing with an apical spot and a streak at the hindmargin between veins 3 and 4; hindwing with two submarginal dots each in cellules 2—6 and with three large discal spots about in the middle of cellules 2—4, beneath red at the base.^[4]

Subspecies

• Graphium fulleri fulleri (Cameroon, Congo)
• Graphium fulleri boulleti (Le Cerf, 1912)^[5] (Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo)

Taxonomy

Graphium fulleri belongs to a species group with 16 members. All are very similar.fulleri is possibly a form of Graphium ucalegonides . The species group members are:

• Graphium abri Smith & Vane-Wright, 2001
• Graphium adamastor (Boisduval, 1836)
• Graphium agamedes (Westwood, 1842)
• Graphium almansor (Honrath, 1884)
• Graphium auriger (Butler, 1876)
• Graphium aurivilliusi (Seeldrayers, 1896)
• Graphium fulleri (Grose-Smith, 1883)
• Graphium hachei (Dewitz, 1881)
• Graphium kigoma Carcasson, 1964
• Graphium olbrechtsi Berger, 1950
• Graphium poggianus (Honrath, 1884)
• Graphium rileyi Berger, 1950
• Graphium schubotzi (Schultze, 1913)
• Graphium simoni (Aurivillius, 1899),
• Graphium ucalegon (Hewitson, 1865)[
• Graphium ucalegonides (Staudinger, 1884)

Biogeographic realm

Afrotropical realm

Images

External images from Royal Museum of Central Africa.