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The Swallowtail Moths (URANIIDAE, Uraniinae) of Papua Indonesia

by Siep and Jannie Sinnema

 

 

Cyphura (Cyphura) swinhoei (Rothschild, 1915)

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Distribution

 

 

 

STATUS: This species seems restricted to the southwestern part of New Guinea. Not common.

PAPUA LOCALITIES: Roon Island; New Guinea: Base Camp (Utakwa River), Eilanden River, Etna Bay, Utakwa River, Wangaar River. Details in gazetteer.

EXTERNAL DISTRIBUTION: none.

DATA SOURCES: BMNH.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Literature

Sinnema, S. & J. Sinnema-Bloemen, 2020. Revision of the genus Cyphura Warren, 1902. Part III: The geminia and semiobsoleta species groups from the Indo-Pacific region with five new species (Lepidoptera: Uraniidae: Uraniinae). Tijdschrift voor Entomologie 163: 63-99.