''Papilio syfanius'' is a

species In biology, a species is the basic unit of classification and a taxonomic rank of an organism, as well as a unit of biodiversity. A species is often defined as the largest group of organisms in which any two individuals of the appropriate s ...

of swallowtail butterfly from the

genus Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus comes above species and below family. In binomial nom ...

Papilio ''Papilio'' is a genus in the swallowtail butterfly family, Papilionidae, as well as the only representative of the tribe Papilionini. The word ''papilio'' is Latin for butterfly. It includes the common yellow swallowtail (''Papilio machaon''), ...

'' that is found in China.Papilio at Funet
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Subspecies

*''Papilio syfanius syfanius'' (northern Yunnan) *''Papilio syfanius albosyfanius'' Shimogori & Fujioka, 1997 (northern Yunnan) *''Papilio syfanius kongaensis'' (Yoshino, 1997) (Sichuan)

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