''Protographium'' is a genus of mostly
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 bioge ...
swallowtail butterflies
Butterflies are insects in the macrolepidopteran clade Rhopalocera from the Order (biology), order Lepidoptera, which also includes moths. Adult butterflies have large, often brightly coloured wings, and conspicuous, fluttering flight. The ...
in the subfamily
Papilioninae
Papilioninae is a subfamily of the butterfly family Papilionidae. Papilioninae are found worldwide, but most species are distributed in the tropics. There are roughly 480 species, of which 27 occur in North America.
Tribes
This subfamily consis ...
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Taxonomy
The classification of species in the genus Protographium is undergoing changes as New World species are now being moved to other genera.
:subgenus: ''Protographium''
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Protographium leosthenes
''Protographium leosthenes'', the four-barred swordtail, is a medium-sized butterfly of the family Papilionidae found in Australia. It is similar to the five-barred (or chain) swordtail (''Graphium aristeus'') found in both Australia and India. ...
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(Doubleday, 1846)
subgenus: unassigned
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Protographium × oberthueri''
Rothschild & Jordan, 1906
subgenus: ''Eurygraphium''
Möhn, 2002
:species group: ''thyastes''
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Protographium calliste''
(Bates, 1864)
See also
* ''
Graphium''
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
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