Swallowtail butterfly

Swallowtail butterfly
	Western Tiger Swallowtail, Papilio rutulus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Suborder:	Ditrysia
Superfamily:	Papilionoidea
Family:	Papilionidae; Latreille, 1802
Type species
	Papilio machaon; (Old World Swallowtail)
Subfamilies and genera
	There are 26 genera and about 605 species: Subfamily Baroniinae Baronia; ; Subfamily Parnassiinae Allancastria; Archon; Bhutanitis; Hypermnestra; Luehdorfia; Parnassius; Sericinus; ; Subfamily Papilioninae Atrophaneura; Battus; Byasa; Chilasa; Cressida; Euryades; Eurytides; Graphium; Iphiclides; Lamproptera; Losaria; Meandrusa; Mimoides; Ornithoptera; Pachliopta; Papilio; Parides; Pharmacophagus; Protesilaus; Protographium; Teinopalpus; Trogonoptera; Troides; ;

Swallowtail butterflies are large, colorful butterflies which form the family Papilionidae. There are at least 550 species, and though the majority are tropical, members of the family are found on all continents except Antarctica. The family includes the largest butterflies in the world, the birdwing butterflies of Australia (genus Ornithoptera).^[1]

References

↑ Reed, Robert D. and Sperling, Felix A. H. 2006. Papilionidae. The Swallowtail Butterflies. Version 7 July 2006. [1] Archived 2016-08-17 at the Wayback Machine in The Tree of Life Web Project, [2]

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[reed-1] Reed, Robert D. and Sperling, Felix A. H. 2006. Papilionidae. The Swallowtail Butterflies. Version 7 July 2006. [1] Archived 2016-08-17 at the Wayback Machine in The Tree of Life Web Project, [2]

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