Protographium
Appearance
Protographium | |
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Protographium leosthenes | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Papilionidae |
Tribe: | Leptocircini |
Genus: | Protographium Munroe, 1961 |
Synonyms | |
[see Eurytides]
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Protographium is genus of Australian and Neotropical swallowtail butterflies in the subfamily Papilioninae.
Taxonomy
[edit]Related to Old World genus Graphium. The classification of species in the genus Protographium is undergoing changes as New World representatives have been re-classified under Eurytides by most authors.[1]
- subgenus: Protographium
- Protographium leosthenes (Doubleday, 1846)
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "A Catalogue of the Butterflies of the United States and Canada by Jonathan P. Pelham". www.butterfliesofamerica.com. Retrieved 2022-12-08.
- Edwin Möhn, 2002 Schmetterlinge der Erde, Butterflies of the world Part XIIII (14), Papilionidae VIII: Baronia, Euryades, Protographium, Neographium, Eurytides. Edited by Erich Bauer and Thomas Frankenbach Keltern : Goecke & Evers ; Canterbury : Hillside Books. ISBN 978-3-931374-87-7 All species and subspecies are included, also most of the forms. Several females are shown the first time in colour.