Graphium antiphates nebulosus ( Butler, 1881 )

Hu, Shao-Ji, Cotton, Adam M., Lamas, Gerardo, Duan, Kuang & Zhang, Xin, 2023, Checklist of Yunnan Papilionidae (Lepidoptera: Papilionoidea) with nomenclatural notes and descriptions of new subspecies, Zootaxa 5362 (1), pp. 1-69 : 19

21a. Graphium antiphates nebulosus ( Butler, 1881)

Papilio nebulosus Butler, 1881 ; Ann. Mag. nat. Hist., (5) 7 (37): 33, pl. 4, f. 3; TL: ‘Darjiling’ [Darjeeling, N.E. India].

Papilio antiphates continentalis Eimer, 1889 ; Artb. Verw. Schmett., 1: 137, pl. 2, f. 1, 3; TL: ‘Sikkim’.

Distribution: found in lowlands and river valleys in W., S., and S.E. Yunnan; widely distributed from N.E. India to Indochina.

Note: The name pompilius ( Fabricius, 1787), previously used for the populations in N.E. India, S. Yunnan, Hainan, and Indochina, was proven a synonym of the nominotypical antiphates by Cotton et al. (2019), and nebulosus ( Butler, 1881) was adopted as the valid subspecies name for populations of Graphium antiphates previously treated as belonging to subspecies pompilius. However, we treat the Hainan population, described as Papilio antiphates linga Fruhstorfer, 1909 , under the nominate subspecies (syn. nov.) rather than subspecies nebulosus .