Byasa adamsoni

Adamson's rose
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Papilionidae
Genus: Byasa
Species: B. adamsoni
Binomial name
Byasa adamsoni[1]
Synonyms
  • Papilio adamsoni Grose-Smith, 1886
  • Papilio (Byasa) minereoides Elwes & de Nicéville, [1887]
  • Atrophaneura (Byasa) adamsoni (Grose-Smith, 1886)

Byasa adamsoni, or Adamson's rose, is a species of butterfly from the family Papilionidae that is found in Burma, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam.[2]

Etymology

It is named for the collector Captain Adamson R.E..

References

  1. 1 2 Häuser, Christoph L.; de Jong, Rienk; Lamas, Gerardo; Robbins, Robert K.; Smith, Campbell; Vane-Wright, Richard I. (28 July 2005). "Papilionidae – revised GloBIS/GART species checklist (2nd draft)". Entomological Data Information System. Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde Stuttgart, Germany. Retrieved 21 June 2013.
  2. ↑ Atrophaneura adamsoni adamsoni (Grose-Smith,1886)
  • Collins, N. Mark; Morris, Michael G. (1985). Threatened Swallowtail Butterflies of the World: The IUCN Red Data Book. Gland & Cambridge: IUCN. ISBN 978-2-88032-603-6 – via Biodiversity Heritage Library.
  • Grose-Smith, H. (1886). Descriptions of four new Species of Butterflies from Burmah. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 18(5):149-151.


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