Lamproptera, Hu & Zhang & Cotton & Ye, 2014

Hu, Shao-Ji, Zhang, Xin, Cotton, Adam M. & Ye, Hui, 2014, Discovery of a third species of Lamproptera Gray, 1832 (Lepidoptera: Papilionidae), Zootaxa 3786 (4), pp. 469-482 : 475

Key to species of Lamproptera

Based on external characters:

1 Forewing inner discal band white; a hyaline band at least 1 mm wide between the black and white bands................ 2

- Forewing inner discal band pale green (or with a blue hue, colour more vivid when alive); no obvious hyaline band between the black and pale green bands.................................................................... L. meges

2 Forewing black marginal band edged proximally with white.......................................... L. paracurius

- Forewing black marginal band not edged proximally with white.......................................... L. curius

Based on male genitalia:

1 Uncus small, narrow, valve elongated, 4.5–4.8 mm in length (length 3.0–3.1 times maximum depth), ventrally concave, apex angular, clasper with a long hook, aedeagus curved, juxta with long processes............................... L. curius

- Uncus relatively broad, clasper not as above............................................................... 2

2 Uncus triangular in lateral view; valve elongated, 3.0– 3.4 mm in length (length 2.5–2.9 times maximum depth), ventrally straight, apex sub-angular, clasper with short but well-developed hook, aedeagus curved, juxta with short processes................................................................................................. L. paracurius

- Uncus beak-like in lateral view; valve relatively rounded, 3.2–4.2 mm in length (length 2.0–2.1 times maximum depth), ventrally slightly or not convex, apex rounded, clasper with hook short or strongly reduced, aedeagus almost straight, juxta wide.............................................................................................. L. meges