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Lamproptera

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

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Lamproptera
Lamproptera meges (Ulster Museum)
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Pancrustacea
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Papilionidae
Tribe: Leptocircini
Genus: Lamproptera
Gray, 18321
Synonyms
  • Leptocircus Swainson, 1833

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

Species

Image Scientific name Common name Distribution
Lamproptera curius (Fabricius, 1787) white dragontail Thailand, Laos, Vietnam, southern China, Kampuchea, Malaysia, Indonesia, Brunei, and the Philippines. India from Assam to Burma
Lamproptera meges (Zinken, 1831) green dragontail India, 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.
References

References

  1. Lamproptera at funet.fi