Papilio Clytia - Key To Forms

Key To Forms

From Bingham, C. T. (1907) The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma. Butterflies. Vol 2

• A. Forewing upperside: not glossed with blue, or if blue-glossed, then wing uniform without other markings.
  • a. Basal half or more of both fore and hind wing uniform without white markings.
    • a1. Forewing upperside: no blue gloss at base.
      • a2. Forewing uppserisde with prominent subterminal and terminal, sometimes also a postdiscal, series of white spots.
        • a3. These spots not elongate, not coalescent towards apex and not formed into a prominent apical white patch.
          • P. clytia
        • b3. These spots elongate and coalescent towards apex and there form a prominent white patch.
          • P. clytia race panope
      • b2. Forewing upperside without or with only more or less obsolescent series of subterminal and terminal white spots; such spots when present always very small.
        • P. clytia race lankeswara
    • b1. Forewing upperside with a more or less obvious blue gloss at base.
      • P. clytia variety papone
  • b. Basal half of fore and hind wing not uniform, with a streak in cell and in posterior interspaces.
    • a1. Hindwing upperside: discal series of white streaks broad and long; underside: terminal series of ochraceous-yellow spots not remarkably large.
      • P. clytia dimorph dissimils
    • b1. Hindwing upperside: discal series of white streaks short and narrow; underside: terminal series of ochraceous-yellow spots remarkably large.
      • P. clytia race flavolimbatus
• B. Forewing upperside: richly glossed with blue.
  • a. Hindwing: male without, female with, whitish streaks in cell and interspaces that extend up to base of wing.
    • P. paradoxus race telearchus
  • b. Hindwing: Male and female with white discal markings, but none that extend up to base of wing
    • P. caunus race danisepa.