''Sericinus'' is a

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of swallowtail butterflies placed in the subfamily

Parnassiinae The Parnassiinae or snow Apollos are a subfamily of the swallowtail butterfly family, Papilionidae. The subfamily includes about 50 medium-sized, white or yellow species. The snow Apollos are high-altitude butterflies and are distributed across ...

. The genus has a complex history and a multiplicity of names have been applied to its single species. ''Sericinus montela'', the dragon swallowtail, is the only species, making the genus

monotypic In biology, a monotypic taxon is a taxonomic group (taxon) that contains only one immediately subordinate taxon. A monotypic species is one that does not include subspecies or smaller, infraspecific taxa. In the case of genera, the term "unispec ...

. It is found in the

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Korea Korea ( ko, 한국, or , ) is a peninsular region in East Asia. Since 1945, it has been divided at or near the 38th parallel, with North Korea (Democratic People's Republic of Korea) comprising its northern half and South Korea (Republic o ...

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and

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Taxonomy

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below for abbreviations used'' ''Sericinus'' Westwood, 1851 (''Transactions of the Entomological Society of London''. NS I: 173), monobasic ''telamon''

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(''Sericinus'' Wood, 1877: ''Suicinus'' Draesecke, 1923) ''montela''

Gray Grey (more common in British English) or gray (more common in American English) is an intermediate color between black and white. It is a neutral or achromatic color, meaning literally that it is "without color", because it can be composed o ...

, 1853. Image:Stelammale.jpg, Male museum specimen from China *

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''manchurica'' ( Bang-Haas (''i.l.'') van Rosen, 1929 (North

: South

Manchuria Manchuria is an exonym (derived from the endo demonym " Manchu") for a historical and geographic region in Northeast Asia encompassing the entirety of present-day Northeast China (Inner Manchuria) and parts of the Russian Far East (Outer Manc ...

) **

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''roseni'' Bryk, 1932 ''gen. vern.'' **Form ''manschuricus'' van Rosen ''gen. aest.'' **Form ''cellopura'' **Form ''posterior exsubcostalis'' (!) Eisner, 1974 **Form ''binaria'' Bryk **Form ''minusculus'' Eisner, 1962 **Form ''nigricans'' Eisner, 1962 **Form ''minima'' Eisner, 1962 *Subspecies ''amurensis'' Staudinger, 1892 (East

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Amurland Outer Manchuria (russian: Приаму́рье, translit=Priamurye; zh, s=外满洲, t=外滿洲, p=Wài Mǎnzhōu), or Outer Northeast China ( zh, s=外东北, t=外東北, p=Wài Dōngběi), refers to a territory in Northeast Asia that is now ...

Ussuri The Ussuri or Wusuli (russian: Уссури; ) is a river that runs through Khabarovsk and Primorsky Krais, Russia and the southeast region of Northeast China. It rises in the Sikhote-Alin mountain range, flowing north and forming part of the Si ...

) Image:Stelamamurfj.jpg, Subspecies ''amurensis'', female,

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, Russia Image:Stelamamurmj.jpg, Subspecies ''amurensis'', male, Amur **Form ''telemachus'' Staudinger, 1892 ''gen. vern.'' **Form ''amurensis'' Staudingers ''gen. vest''. **Form ''minusculus'' Eisner, 1962 *Subspecies ''eisneri'' Bryk 1932 North East

(probably ''amurensis'') ''gen. vern.'' not described. **Form ''eisneri'' Bryk ''gen. aest.'' **Form ''binaria'' Eisner, 1962 **Form ''unaria'' Eisner, 1962 ! *Subspecies ''koreana'' Fixsen, 1887 (''melanogramma'' Bryk, 1846) Korea **Form ''fixseni'' Staudinger, 1892 ''gen. vern.'' **Form ''koreanus'' Fix. ''gen. aest.'' **Form ''grayi'' Fixsen, 1887 **Form ''grundi'' Eisner, 1962 **Form ''binaria'' Eisner, 1962 **Form ''strandi'' Bryk 1913 **Form ''flavomaculata'' Eisner, 1962 **Form ''minusculus'' Eisner, 1962 **Form ''magna'' Eisner **Form ''rubrocatenata'' Eisner **Form ''posteriorsubmarginalisinterrupta'' (!) Eisner, 1974 *Subspecies ''montela'' Gray, 1852 (''telamon'' Donovan, 1798: ''hoenei'' Hering), (Central and North China - Peking, Nanking, Chekiang, Shanghai) Image:Smontelafj.jpg, Nominate subspecies, female Image:Smontelamj.jpg, Nominate subspecies, male **Form ''strandi'' Bryk, 1913 **Form ''telmona'' Gray 1852 ''gen. vern.'' (''hoenei'' Bryk, 1932) **Form ''telmononula'' Bryk **Form ''ruth'' Eisner, 1962 **Form ''montela'' Gray, 1852 ''gen. aest.'' **Form ''cellopura'' Eisner, 1954 **Form ''cellopurissima'' Eisner, 1954 **Form ''elegantissima'' Eisner, 1954 **Form ''flavomaculata'' Eisner, 1954 **Form ''miniuscula'' Eisner, 1962 **Form ''binaria'' Eisner, 1962 **Form ''nigricans'' Eisner, 1962 **Form ''eva'' Bryk and Eisner, 1935 **Form ''absurdus'' Bryk, 1913 (West China, South Shantung, Lau shan, Tientsin) *Subspecies ''elegans'' Bryk, 1913 (''leechi''

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, 1918) (West China) **Form '' telmona'' Gray ''gen. vern.'' **Form ''elegans'' Bryk ''gen. aest.'' **Form ''strandi'' Bryk, 1913 **Form ''leechi'' Rothschild, 1918 **Form ''cressoni'' Reakirt *Subspecies ''anderssoni'' Bryk, 1941 (Central China: Hupei ''anderssoni'' Bryk, ''gen. aest.'' *Subspecies ''magnus'' Fruhstorfer, 1913 (South China: Kiangsi, Liu- kiang *Subspecies ''kansuensis'' Eisner, 1962 (China: Kansu, Tsinglingshan, Szetchwan) *Subspecies ''shantungensis'' Hering, 1935 (China: Shantung) **Form ''cellopurissima'' Eisner, 1954 **Form ''binaria'' Eisner, 1962 **Form ''rubrocatenata'' Eisner, 1962 **Form ''quadripicta'' Eisner, 1962 **Form ''elegantissima'' Eisner, 1954

Notes

*monobasic = founded containing a single species, same as "

" if no more species are added *''gen. vern.'' = ''vernalis'', genetically determined

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generation *''gen. aest.'' = ''aestivus'', genetically determined

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generation *''gen. vest.'' = genetically determined vestigial form *(!) = ''nomen collectivum'', a nomenclatural/descriptive term incorrectly used by

Curt Eisner Curt Eisner (April 28, 1890 in Zabrze – December 30, 1981 in The Hague) was a German entomologist who specialised in snow butterflies or Parnassinae. His collections of Parnassinae are in Naturalis, in Leiden, and his Ornithoptera and Morp ...

in a taxonomic sense (infrasubspecific) *''i.l.'' = ''in litteris'', correspondence, not published

References

*Bryk, F. (1913) Neue Parnassiiden-Formen aus dem Zoologischen Museum zu Berlin.''Archiv für Naturgeschichte'' (A) 79 (3): 1-3; pl. 1 artim *Bryk, F. (1932) Neue Zerynthiinae ''Parnassiana'' 2 (6-8): 102-104. *Donovan, E. (1798) ''An Epitome of the natural History of the Insects of China''.E. Donovan, London. *Eisner, C. 1954 (Parnassiana nova): III. Einige neue Formen in der Familie der Parnassiidae ''Zoologische Mededelingen'' 33 (8): 55-57 *Eisner, C. (1962) Parnassiana nova XXXII. Nachträgliche Betrachtungen zu der Revision der Subfamilie Parnassiinae (Fortsetzung 5).''Zoologische Mededelingen'' 38 (7): 105-128. *Fixsen, C. (1887) Lepidoptera aus Korea .''Mémoires sur les Lépidoptères'' 3: 233-356, pls 13-15, 1 map *Gray, G. R. (1852) On the Species of the Genus Sericinus. ''Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London'' 1852: 70-73 *Hering, M. (1935) Neue Unterarten von Sericinus telamon (Donov.) ''Internationale Entomologische Zeitschrift'' 29 (17): 193-195 *von Rosen, K. (1929). Papilio. In (A. Seitz ed.) ''The Macrolepidoptera of the World''. The Palearctic Butterflies. Alfred Kernen. Stuttgart. Suppl. 1 : 7-20. *Rothschild, .(1918) Catalogue of Zerynthiinae and allied genera in the Tring Museum, with critical notes., ''Novitates Zoologicae'' 25: 64-75. *Staudinger, O. (1892) Die Macrolepidopteren des Amurgebietes. I. Theil. Rhopalocera, Sphinges, Bombyces, Sphinges ''Mémoires sur les Lépidoptères'' 6: 83-658 *Ackery, P.R., 1975. A guide to the genera and species of Parnassiinae (Lepidoptera: Papilionidae). ''Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Entomology''. 31: 71-105, plates 1-1
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