Narrative

Eurasia and Indo-Australian Aristolochia groups contains the Atrophaneura, Byasa, and Pachliopta genera. Most of these forms are characterized by a red (or pink) pattern. Some of the Atrophaneura have a blue or green pattern. (Some scientists are combining several of the genera below into a smaller number of genera in this group.)

Following is list of the species in this group (an * indicates that this species is pictured):

SPECIES - - - - - LOCATION
Atrophaneura aidoneus* - India and Burma and Siam
Atrophaneura coon* - Sumatra and west Java
Atrophaneura dixoni* - Sulawesi (Indonesia)
Atrophaneura hageni - Sumatra (high plateau)
Atrophaneura horishanus* - Taiwan (=Formosa)
Atrophaneura kuehni* - Sulawesi (Indonesia)
Atrophaneura luchti* - Mountains in east Java
Atrophaneura neptunus* - Burma, Thailand, Malay & Palawan
Atrophaneura nox* - Malaysia and Thailand
Atrophaneura palu* - Sulawesi (Indonesia)
Atrophaneura priapus* - Java and south Sumatra
Atrophaneura rhodifer - Andaman Isle
Atrophaneura semperi* - Philippines
Atrophaneura sycorax* - Burma, Thailand, Malay, and more
Atrophaneura varuna* - India to Malaysia
Atrophaneura zaleucus* - Burma and Thailand

Byasa genus contains fifteen known species limited to the Indo-Australian region. The species are as follows (an * indicates that this species is pictured):

SPECIES - - - - - - LOCATION
Byasa adamsoni* - Burma and Thailand
Byasa alcinous* - Japan, Taiwan, China, Korea
Byasa crassipes - Northeast India, Burma, Laos
Byasa dasarada* - N. India, Bhutan, Burma, Laos, etc.
Byasa daemonius - China
Byasa febanus* - Taiwan
Byasa hedistus - South China
Byasa impediens - China
Byasa laos - North Thailand and Laos
Byasa latreillei* - Afghanistan to northern India
Byasa memicus - Central and southeast China
Byasa nevilli - Northeast India, Burma, and W. China

Byasa plutonius* - China, India, high elevations Byasa polla - Northeast India
Byasa polyeuctes* - North India, Burma, China to Taiwan

Pachliopta genus is rather complicated from a taxonomic viewpoint. Some of the Philippine forms are especially difficult to understand. Following is a list of the probable sixteen species in the genus (an * indicates that this species is pictured):

SPECIES - - - - LOCATION
Pachliopta annae* - Philippines
Pachliopta aristolochiae* - Afghanistan to Japan
Pachliopta atropus* - Palawan (Philippines)
Pachliopta hector* - Southern India, Sri Lanka
Pachliopta jophon - Sri Lanka
Pachliopta kotzebua - Philippines
Pachliopta liris* - Timor, Wetar, etcetera(islands of Indonesia)
Pachliopta mariae* - Luzon, Leyte, etcetera (islands of Philippines)
Pachllipta oreon - Lesser Sunda, etcetera (islands of Indonesia)
Pachliopta pandiyana - Southern India
Pachliopta phegus - South Philippines
Pachliopta phlegon(=annae) - Philippines
Pachliopta polydorus* - Indonesia to Solomons
Pachliopta polyphontes* - Miscellaneous Islands, Indonesia
Pachliopta schadenbergi - Luzon, etc. (Philippines)
Pachliopta strandi - Philippines

There are several different forms of P. annae which would lead one to suspect that P. annae really should be two species. P. sabinae, strandi, and phlegon are involved in this confusing situation.

(not pictured) Pachliopta strandi might be just a subspecies of P. phlegon.

Taxonomy

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