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Sericinus is a genus of swallowtail butterflies placed in the subfamily Parnassiinae. The genus has a complex history and a multiplicity of names have been applied to its single species.
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Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Papilionidae |
| Genus: | Sericinus Westwood, 1851 |
| Species: | S. montela |
| Binomial name | |
| Sericinus montela Gray, 1852 | |
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Sericinus montela, the dragon swallowtail, is the only species, making the genus monotypic. It is found in the Russian Far East (south of Primorsky Krai), Korea, China and Japan.[1]
- See Notes below for abbreviations used
Sericinus Westwood, 1851 (Transactions of the Entomological Society of London. NS I: 173), monobasic telamon Donovan (Sericinus Wood, 1877: Suicinus Draesecke, 1923) montela Gray, 1853.
Male museum specimen from China
- Subspecies manchurica (Bang-Haas (i.l.) van Rosen, 1929 (North China: South Manchuria)
- Subspecies amurensis Staudinger, 1892 (East U.S.S.R., Amurland-Ussuri)
Subspecies amurensis, female, Amur, Russia
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 Korea (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 - Beijing, Nanjing, Zhenjiang, Shanghai)
Nominate subspecies, female
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 Shandong, Lau shan[clarification needed], Tianjin)
- Subspecies elegans Bryk, 1913 (leechi Rothschild, 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: Hubei anderssoni Bryk, gen. aest.
- Subspecies magnus Fruhstorfer, 1913 (South China: Jiangxi, Liujiang
- Subspecies kansuensis Eisner, 1962 (China: Gansu (i.e., Kansu), Qinling, Sichuan)
- Subspecies shantungensis Hering, 1935 (China: Shandong (i.e., Shantung))
- Form cellopurissima Eisner, 1954
- Form binaria Eisner, 1962
- Form rubrocatenata Eisner, 1962
- Form quadripicta Eisner, 1962
- Form elegantissima Eisner, 1954
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- monobasic = founded containing a single species, same as "monotypic" if no more species are added
- gen. vern. = vernalis, genetically determined spring generation
- gen. aest. = aestivus, genetically determined summer generation
- gen. vest. = genetically determined vestigial form
- (!) = nomen collectivum, a nomenclatural/descriptive term used by Curt Eisner in a taxonomic sense (infrasubspecific)
- i.l. = in litteris, correspondence, not published
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