Papilio polytes, LINNAEUS OF CRAMER, 1780

Chainey, John E., 2005, The species of Papilionidae and Pieridae (Lepidoptera) described by Cramer and Stoll and their putative type material in the Natural History Museum in London, Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 145 (3), pp. 283-337 : 309

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scientific name	Papilio polytes
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POLYTES LINNAEUS OF CRAMER, 1780 View in CoL

Pap[ilio] Eq[ues] Troj[anus] polytes, Cramer, 1780a: 129 , 176, pl.265, figs A, B, C [original plate 235, figs A, A, B]. China; Java; Côte de Coromandel.

Papilio Eques View in CoL Achivus polytes, Stoll, 1782b: 3 [No. 12].

Material examined. 1 ♀, with van Lennep label ‘ No. 12. POLYTES . Cr. III. 265. A. B. C. ’ ( BMNH (E)#665049) is a good match for original plate 235, figs A, A, although the forewing is more contrastingly coloured; there is some damage to the thorax and it may originally have been set as an underside .

Identity. Papilio (Menelaides) polytes Linnaeus, 1758 .