Graphium rhesus

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Graphium rhesus
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Museum specimen from Sulawesi
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Papilionidae
Genus: Graphium
Species:
G. rhesus
Binomial name
Graphium rhesus
(Boisduval, 1836)
Synonyms
  • Papilio rhesusBoisduval, 1836
  • Pathysa rhesus rhesus
  • Papilio rhesus parvimaculaJoicey & Talbot, 1922

Graphium rhesus is a butterfly found in the Sunda Islands of the Malay Archipelago that belongs to the swallowtail family.

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