Graphium (Graphium) agamemnon (Lepidoptera, Papilionidae)

Locality: SE Asia (Country Unknown); December 1996. Specimen supplied from the Marine World, USA.

Remains of the specimen were not suitable for photography.

DNA number FS-b-900.
re-extracted by E. Zakharov, DNA# FS-b-1733.
Geitalia dissected by V Nazari, 2005 (preparation #055).

Specimen used in studies by:

MS Caterino, RD Reed, MM Kuo and FAH Sperling, 2001. A partitioned likelihood analysis of swallowtail butterfly Phylogeny (Lepidoptera: Papilionidae). Systematic Biology 50 (2001): 106-127).

EV Zakharov, MS Caterino and FAH Sperling, 2004. Molecular phylogeny, historical biogeography, and divergence time estimates for swallowtail butterflies of the genus Papilio (lepidoptera: Papilionidae). Systematic Biology 53 (2004): 193-215.

N Wahlberg, MF Braby, AVZ Brower, R de Jong, MM Lee, S Nylin, NE Pierce, FAH Sperling, R Vila, A Warren and EV Zakharov, 2005. Synergistic effects of combining morphological and molecular data in resolving the phylogeny of butterflies and skippers. Proceedings of the Royal Society B., 272 (1572): 1577-1586.

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.

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 AF170874, ND1 DQ351062, 16S DQ351087, EF1a AF173414, and Wingless AY569046.