Papilio doddsi

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Papilio doddsi
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Papilionidae
Genus: Papilio
Species:
P. doddsi
Binomial name
Papilio doddsi
Janet, 1896
Papilio dialis distribution map.png
Geographical range of Papilio dialis (with doddsi included as a subspecies)
Synonyms

Papilio megeiOberthür, 1899

Papilio doddsi is a species of swallowtail butterfly from the genus Papilio that is found in Vietnam. [1]

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Description

Resembles Papilio dialis . Tail either quite short or long, broad and spatulate, with all the intermediate stages.Male only with red anal eye-spot on the upperside of the hindwing, female in addition with red submarginal spot. The black basal area on the underside of the forewing reaches in the to the base of the upper median, and in the female, which I [Jordan] only know from the description, probably does not extend quite so far. Tonkin.Karl Jordan in Seitz. [2]

Taxonomy

It is a member of the species group paris


References

  1. Papilio at Funet
  2. Seitz, A. Band 9: Abt. 2, Die exotischen Großschmetterlinge, Die indo-australischen Tagfalter, 1927, 1197 Seiten 177 Tafeln pdf PD-icon.svg This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain .

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