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Thursday, May 9, 2013

Swallowtail butterfly

                 Swallowtail butterflies are large, colorful butterflies in the family Papilionidae, which includes over 550 species. Though the majority are tropical, members of the family occur on every continent except Antarctica. The family includes the largest butterflies in the world, the birdwing butterflies of the genus Ornithoptera. 
                 The genera of extant swallowtails are usually classified into three subfamilies, Baroniinae, Parnassiinae, and Papilioninae, the latter two being further divided into tribes. Parnassiinae had the following tribes: Allancastria, Archon, Bhutanitis, Hypermnestra, Luehdorfia, Parnassius, Sericinus. Papilioninae is divided in the following tribes: Atrophaneura, Battus, Cressida, Euryades, Eurytides, Graphium, Iphiclides, Lamproptera, Meandrusa, Mimoides, Ornithoptera, Papilio, Parides, Pharmacophagus, Protesilaus, Protographium, Teinopalpus, Trogonoptera, Troides. 

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