Biology:Protographium

Short description: Genus of butterflies

Protographium
Protographium leosthenes
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Papilionidae
Tribe:	Leptocircini
Genus:	Protographium Munroe, 1961
Synonyms
[see Eurytides] Neographium Möhn, 2002 Asiographium Möhn, 2002 Eurygraphium Möhn, 2002

Protographium is genus of Australian and Neotropical swallowtail butterflies in the subfamily Papilioninae.

Taxonomy

Related to Old World genus Graphium. The classification of species in the genus Protographium is undergoing changes as New World representatives have been re-classified under Eurytides by most authors.

subgenus: Protographium

• Protographium leosthenes (Doubleday, 1846)

See also

• Graphium
• Eurytides

References

• Edwin Möhn, 2002 Schmetterlinge der Erde, Butterflies of the world Part XIIII (14), Papilionidae VIII: Baronia, Euryades, Protographium, Neographium, Eurytides. Edited by Erich Bauer and Thomas Frankenbach Keltern : Goecke & Evers ; Canterbury : Hillside Books. ISBN:978-3-931374-87-7 All species and subspecies are included, also most of the forms. Several females are shown the first time in colour.

Wikidata ☰ Q1766196 entry