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Lamproptera meges (Green dragontail butterfly)

Synonyms: Leptocircus decius; Leptocircus meges annamiticus; Leptocircus meges niasicus; Leptocircus meges pallidus; Leptocircus meges pessinus

Wikipedia Abstract

Lamproptera meges, the green dragontail, is a species of swallowtail butterfly (family Papilionidae) found in parts of South Asia and Southeast Asia. There are ten subspecies. A specimen from Java is the type species of the genus.
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Infraspecies

Lamproptera meges meges
Lamproptera meges virescens

Attributes

Wing Span [1]  1.772 inches (.045 m)

Prey / Diet

Illigera cordata[2]
Illigera luzonensis[2]

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1PRESENT STATUS OF SWALLOWTAIL BUTTERFLIES IN GARBHANGA RESERVE FOREST, ASSAM, INDIA, K.K. Barua, D. Kakati and J. Kalita, ZOOS' PRINT JOURNAL 19(4): 1439-1441 (2004)
♦ 2Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0