Atrophaneura kuehni

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Atrophaneura kuehni
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Honrath's plate in Berliner entomologische Zeitschrift 1886, figure 1 female, 1a male
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Papilionidae
Genus: Atrophaneura
Species:
A. kuehni
Binomial name
Atrophaneura kuehni
(Honrath, 1886)
Synonyms
  • Papilio kuehniHonrath, 1886
  • Papilio kühniHonrath, 1886
  • Papilio kühniRothschild, 1895 [1]

Atrophaneura kuehni is a species of butterfly from the family Papilionidae. It is found on Sulawesi, Indonesia.

The male's dorsal side is black overall, the ventral side has a red patch. The female is brown with markings paler than the male. [2]

Little is known about the status of this butterfly which may be very rare. It is held in very few museum collections. [3]

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References

  1. Atrophaneura at Funet
  2. World Field Guide [ permanent dead link ]
  3. Collins, N. Mark; Morris, Michael G. (1985). Threatened Swallowtail Butterflies of the World: The IUCN Red Data Book. Gland & Cambridge: IUCN. ISBN   978-2-88032-603-6 via Biodiversity Heritage Library.