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The Swallowtail Moths (URANIIDAE, Uraniinae) of Papua Indonesia

by Siep and Jannie Sinnema

 

 

Cyphura (Xysterophora) urapteroides Joicey & Talbot, 1917


Distribution

 

 

 

STATUS: A rare species. Endemic for New Guinea.

PAPUA LOCALITIES: New Guinea: Mamberamo Hulu (Foja Mts), Pass Valley, Wandammen Peninsula. Details in gazetteer.

EXTERNAL DISTRIBUTION: Papua New Guinea.

DATA SOURCES: BMNH, KSP.

 

 

 

 

 

 


Literature

Gaede, M., 1934. In: Seitz, A. Die Gross-Schmetterlinge der Erde 10: Spinner und Schwarmer des Indo-Australischen Gebiets, Uraniidae: 97-103. A. Kernen, Stuttgart.
Sinnema, S. & J. Sinnema-Bloemen, 2016. Revision of the genus Cyphura Warren, 1902. Part I: Introduction of the New Subgenus Xysterophora with Two New Species from New Guinea (Lepidoptera: Uraniidae: Uraniinae). - Tijdschrift voor Entomologie 159 (2016) 143-163.