Papilio neyi

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Papilio neyi
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Original description by Niepelt
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Papilionidae
Genus: Papilio
Species:
P. neyi
Binomial name
Papilio neyi
Niepelt, 1909

Papilio neyi is a species of swallowtail butterfly from the genus Papilio that is found in Ecuador, French Guiana, Peru and Brazil. [1]

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Description

Papilio neyi is a large, brown butterfly with extensive orange markings and a submarginal line of creamy white spots and dots. The fore wings are adorned with large orange spots from the basal part to the submarginal line of cream spots which reserves the brown apex and the hind wings have a brown border marked or not with a submarginal line of cream dots and covered with confluent orange spots.

Subspecies

Taxonomy

Papilio neyi is in the Papilio zagreus species group. This clade has two members.

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References

  1. Papilio at Funet
  2. 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.
  3. Tyler, H.A., Brown, Jr., K.S. & Wilson, K.H. 1994. Swallowtail Butterflies of the Americas. Scientific Publishers, Gainesville, Florida