Meandrusa

Life-forms

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Hexapoda
Classis: Insecta
Cladus: Dicondylia
Subclassis: Pterygota
Cladus: Metapterygota
Infraclassis: Neoptera
Cladus: Eumetabola
Cladus: Endopterygota
Superordo: Panorpida
Cladus: Amphiesmenoptera
Ordo: Lepidoptera
Subordo: Glossata
Cladus: Coelolepida
Cladus: Myoglossata
Cladus: Neolepidoptera
Infraordo: Heteroneura
Cladus: Eulepidoptera
Cladus: Ditrysia
Cladus: Apoditrysia
Cladus: Obtectomera
Superfamilia: Papilionoidea

Familia: Papilionidae
Subfamilia: Papilioninae
Tribus: Papilionini
Genus: Meandrusa
Species: M. gyas – M. lachinus – M. payeni – M. sciron
Name

Meandrusa Moore, 1888: 284.

Type Species: Papilio evan Doubleday, 1845: 235.
Synonymy

Dabasa Moore, 1888: 283. TS: Papilio gyas Westwood, 1841: 41, pl. 11, fig 1. ♂. See Hemming, 1967: 279.

References

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Doubleday, E. 1845. Descriptions of new or imperfectly described diurnal Lepidoptera Annals and Magazine of Natural History 16 (104): 176–182, (105): 232–236 and (106): 304–308. DOI: 10.1080/037454809495926 Paywall, DOI: 10.1080/037454809495945 Paywall and DOI: 10.1080/037454809496524 Paywall. Reference page.
Funahashi, A. 2003 : Butterflies of Vietnam part.2 Descriptions of 19 New subspecies of Butterflies from Vietnam. Wallace 8: 3–15
Hemming, A. F., 1967. The generic names of the butterflies and their type species (Lepidoptera: Rhopalocera). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) 1967, Suppl. 9: 1-509.Reference page.
Monastyrskii, A.L. & A.L. Devyatkin 2003: New taxa and new records of butterflies from Vietnam, 2 (Lepidoptera: Rhopalocera). Atalanta 34 (1/2): 75–109.
Moore, F., 1879–1888. Descriptions of new Indian lepidopterous insects from the collection of the late Mr. W. S. Atkinson, M.A., F.L.S. etc. director of public instruction, Calcutta. Heterocera. Parts 1–3. Asiatic Society of Bengal, Calcutta: i–xi, 1–299, pls. 1–8. 1-1879; 2-1881; 3-1887. Reference page.
Nakano, S. 1995: A new subspecies of Meandrusa gyas found in NE Thailand (Lepidoptera: Papilionidae). Futao 19: 3–5.
Simonsen, T.J., Zakharov, E.V., Djernaes, M., Cotton, A.M., Vane-Wright, R.I. & Sperling, F.A.H. 2011. Phylogenetics and divergence times of Papilioninae (Lepidoptera) with special reference to the enigmatic genera Teinopalpus and Meandrusa. Cladistics 27(2): 113–137. DOI: 10.1111/j.1096-0031.2010.00326.x Reference page.
Sugiyama, H., 1994: New butterflies from Western China. Pallarge 3: 1–12.
Westwood, J.O. 1841. Arcana entomologica, or, Illustrations of new, rare, and interesting insects. London: William Smith, 1841–1845. BHLReference page.

Vernacular names
中文: 鉤鳳蝶屬

Meandrusa is a genus of butterflies within the subfamily Papilioninae of the family Papilionidae (swallowtails).
Species

Meandrusa gyas (Westwood, 1841) – brown gorgon
Meandrusa lachinus (Fruhstorfer, 1902)
Meandrusa payeni (Boisduval, 1836) – yellow gorgon
Meandrusa sciron (Leech, 1890) – Eastern brown gorgon