The broad black marginal band of the hindwing is always ornamented with light spots. The wings have a common light median band, which does not reach the base of the hindwing and is interrupted in cellule 5 of the forewing. Hindwing beneath without black basal, dot in cellule 7 and consequently with only two such dots. Hindwing with 3—8 usually double sub¬marginal spots.
The markings are light yellow; the median band formed almost exactly as in G. ucalegon-,
cell of the forewing with an apical spot and a streak at the hindmargin between veins 3 and 4; hindwing with two submarginal dots each in cellules 2—6 and with three large discal spots about in the middle of cellules 2–4, beneath red at the base.[4]
Subspecies
Graphium fulleri fulleri (Cameroon, Congo)
Graphium fulleri boulleti (Le Cerf, 1912)[5] (Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo)
Taxonomy
Graphium fulleri belongs to a species group with 16 members. All are very similar.fulleri is possibly a form of Graphium ucalegonides.
The species group members are:
^Aurivillius, [P.O.]C. 1908-1924. In: Seitz, A. Die Großschmetterlinge der Erde Band 13: Abt. 2, Die exotischen Großschmetterlinge, Die afrikanischen Tagfalter, 1925, 613 Seiten, 80 Tafeln (The Macrolepidoptera of the World 13).
Alfred Kernen Verlag, Stuttgart. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
^Le Cerf, F. 1912. Description d'un Papilio du Congo francais. Bulletin de la Société Entomologique de France 1912: 382-383.
