''Protographium'' is genus of Australian and
Neotropical
The Neotropical realm is one of the eight biogeographic realms constituting Earth's land surface. Physically, it includes the tropical terrestrial ecoregions of the Americas and the entire South American temperate zone.
Definition
In biogeogra ...
swallowtail butterflies
Butterflies are winged insects from the lepidopteran superfamily Papilionoidea, characterized by large, often brightly coloured wings that often fold together when at rest, and a conspicuous, fluttering flight. The oldest butterfly fossi ...
in the subfamily
Papilioninae
Papilioninae is a subfamily of the butterfly Family (biology), family Papilionidae. Papilioninae are Swallowtail butterfly, swallowtail butterflies and are found worldwide, but most species are distributed in the Tropics, tropics and warmer regio ...
.
Taxonomy
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.
:subgenus: ''Protographium''
:*''
Protographium leosthenes''
(Doubleday, 1846)
See also
* ''
Graphium''
* ''
Eurytides
''Eurytides'' is a genus of butterflies in the family Papilionidae, found in North, Central, and South America.
Species
The following species are recognised in the genus ''Eurytides'':
Subgenus ''Bellerographium'' Möhn, 2002
* '' Eurytides bel ...
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References
*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. All species and subspecies are included, also most of the forms. Several females are shown the first time in colour.
Butterfly genera
Taxa named by Eugene G. Munroe
Taxa described in 1961
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