Mimoides

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Mimoides
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Mimoides xeniades
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Papilionidae
Tribe: Leptocircini
Genus: Mimoides
K.S. Brown, 1991
Species

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Synonyms

Mimoides is a genus of butterflies in the family Papilionidae. The species native to the Americas were formerly in genus Eurytides .

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