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Eurytides/Protographium marcellus
Posted: Sat Jun 25, 2022 1:02 pm
by Berg2036
I was wondering if anyone knew if Soursop(Annona muricata) was a host for the Eurytides/Protographium marcellus? Ive seen some posts on different gardening boards about but just wanted to know if anyone on here has raised them on it?
Thanks!
Re: Eurytides/Protographium marcellus
Posted: Sat Jun 25, 2022 1:42 pm
by adamcotton
Eurytides marcellus and all the other North or South American Leptocircini are not related at all closely to
Protographium leosthenes from Australia. Keith Brown's idea is not borne out by DNA analysis.
The monotypic genus
Protographium is the sister to
Graphium, whereas all the American species are on a separate branch of the tribe, and it is best to use
Eurytides for them.
Please see
http://lepsurvey.carolinanature.com/ttr/ttr-8-2.pdf
Adam.
PS. I recommend people turn off 'autocorrect' so species names are not automatically changed to a first capital letter.