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Eurytides marcellus, the zebra swallowtail (formerly listed under genera Protographium, Iphiclides, Graphium and Papilio by some authorities), is a swallowtail butterfly native to the eastern United States and south-eastern Canada. It is the state butterfly of Tennessee.
Great zebra Male in Adalbert ... Binomial name; Graphium xenocles. ... 1775. Graphium xenocles, the great zebra, is a swallowtail butterfly found in Southeast Asia ...
The forked appearance in some of the swallowtails' hindwings, which can be seen when the butterfly is resting with its wings spread, gave rise to the common name swallowtail. As for its formal name, Linnaeus chose Papilio for the type genus, as papilio is Latin for "butterfly". For the specific epithets of the genus, Linnaeus applied the names ...
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Eurytides philolaus, the dark zebra swallowtail or dark kite-swallowtail, is a butterfly of the family Papilionidae. It is found from southern Texas to northern South America. [2] The wingspan is 90–95 mm.
The following species are recognised in the genus Eurytides: [1] [2] [3]. Subgenus Bellerographium Möhn, 2002. Eurytides bellerophon (Dahlman, 1823); Subgenus Eurytides. Eurytides salvini (Bates, 1864) – Salvin's kite swallowtail
Graphium is a genus of mostly tropical swallowtail butterflies commonly known as swordtails, kite swallowtails, or ladies.Native to Eurasia, Africa, and Oceania, the genus is represented by over 100 species.
Lepidoptera (/ ˌ l ɛ p ɪ ˈ d ɒ p t ər ə / LEP-ih-DOP-tər-ə) or lepidopterans is an order of winged insects which includes butterflies and moths.About 180,000 species of the Lepidoptera have been described, representing 10% of the total described species of living organisms, [1] [2] making it the second largest insect order (behind Coleoptera) with 126 families [3] and 46 superfamilies ...