Bhutanitis mansfieldi (Lepidoptera, Papilionidae)
Specimen not available for photography; Legs only (used up in DNA extraction).
Locality: China: Sichuan, East Mei Mtn, 07.2000.
DNA number FS-b-1589.
Specimen used in studies by:
V Nazari and FAH Sperling, [2007]. Mitochondrial DNA variability and phylogeography in western palaearctic Parnassiinae (Lepidoptera: Papilionidae): How many species are there? Insect Systematics and Evolution , in prep.
Simonsen TJ, Zakharov EV,
Djernæs M, Cotton AM, Vane-Wright RI, Sperling FAH [2010]. Phylogenetics and divergence times of Papilioninae (Lepidoptera)
with special reference to the enigmatic genera Teinopalpus and Meandrusa. Cladistics
(pre publication).
GenBank Accession Numbers for COI-COII DQ351036, 16S DQ351097, EF1a DQ351116, and Wingless DQ351140.
V Nazari, EV Zakharov and FAH Sperling, 2007. Phylogeny, historical biogeography, and taxonomic ranking of Parnassiinae based on morphology and seven genes. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, in review.