Graphium (Pazala) mandarinus subsp. mandarinus mandarinus (Oberthur 1879

Graphium (Pazala) mandarinus mandarinus (Oberth��r, 1879) (Figure 25, F and G) [Papilio] Glycerion vari��t�� g��ographique Mandarinus Oberth��r, 1879, ��tud. d���Ent., 4: 115; TL: ���Moupin��� [= Baoxing, W. Sichuan, China]. Pazala mandarina; Chou, 1994; Monographia Rhopalocerorum Sinensium: 55, 176 (unjustified emendation). Diagnostic characters: The largest subspecies of mandarinus, forewing length: male 31.0���39.0 mm (mean = 36.4 �� 1.5 mm, n = 48), female 39.5 mm (only one female examined). Forewing, apex blunt, not produced, termen straight or slightly concave in the middle; veins M1 to Cu2 usually tinged with black scales, especially near the base. Hindwing, black discal band on the upperside well developed in male but often reduced in female, submarginal black short lines well developed on the upperside in both sexes, reaching costa or at least space sc+r1. Distribution: Sichuan and W. Hubei, China. Phenology: Probably bivoltine like the preceding subspecies; further surveys are required in future. Host plant: This subspecies feeds on Litsea populifolia (Lauraceae) in W. Sichuan, China (Zhi-Bing Chen, pers. comm.).
Published as part of Hu, Shao-Ji, Cotton, Adam M., Condamine, Fabien L., Duan, Kuang, Wang, Rong-Jiang, Hsu, Yu-Feng, Zhang, Xin & Cao, Jun, 2018, Revision of Pazala Moore, 1888: The Graphium (Pazala) mandarinus (Oberth��r, 1879) Group, with Treatments of Known Taxa and Descriptions of New Species and New Subspecies (Lepidoptera: Papilionidae), pp. 401-446 in Zootaxa 4441 (3) on page 437, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4441.3.1, http://zenodo.org/record/1301610
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