''Byasa rhadinus'' is a
species of
butterfly from the
family Papilionidae. It is found in
China
China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. It is the world's most populous country, with a population exceeding 1.4 billion, slightly ahead of India. China spans the equivalent of five time zones and ...
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Taxonomy
Originally described as ''Papilio mencius'' Felder, 1862 subsp. ''rhadinus'' Jordan, 1928, this butterfly was considered
conspecific with ''
Atrophaneura mencius'' (e.g., Collins & Morris 1985, Fujioka et al. 1997). It has been reclassified as a viable species by Chou (1994).
References
External links
External imagesof
Holotype
Butterflies described in 1928
Byasa
Butterflies of Asia
Taxa named by Karl Jordan
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