Lamproptera

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Lamproptera
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Lamproptera meges (Ulster Museum)
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Papilionidae
Tribe: Leptocircini
Genus: Lamproptera
Gray, 1832 [1]
Synonyms
  • LeptocircusSwainson, 1833

Lamproptera is a genus of butterflies in the family Papilionidae and the tribe Leptocircini.

Species

ImageScientific nameCommon NameDistribution
White Dragontail Sohini Vanjari.jpg Lamproptera curius (Fabricius, 1787)white dragontailThailand, Laos, Vietnam, southern China, Kampuchea, Malaysia, Indonesia, Brunei, and the Philippines. India from Assam to Burma
Green Dragontail Lamproptera meges%3F (24334657302).jpg Lamproptera meges (Zinken, 1831)green dragontailIndia, in the states of Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, Manipur and Nagaland, Myanmar, Thailand, Laos, Vietnam, southern China (including Hainan), Cambodia, peninsular and eastern Malaysia, the Indonesian archipelago, Brunei, and the Philippines.

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References

  1. Lamproptera at funet.fi