Bhutanitis
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Species
GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumArthropoda
- ClassInsecta
- OrderLepidoptera
- FamilyPapilionidae
Observations recorded670
via GBIF
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 11
- Family
- Papilionidae
- Collections
- USNM, UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA MUSEUMS (UAM), RBINS-SCIENTIFIC HERITAGE, NHMUK
- Recorded in
- India, Thailand, Bhutan, China
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Encyclopedic overview
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Bhutanitis is a genus of swallowtail butterflies that contains four species.
==Distribution== The genus reaches its peak diversity in south-western China, particularly Yunnan and Sichuan (Chou, 2000), and adjacent Bhutan. Bhutanitis lidderdali is the most widespread species, occurring in China, Bhutan, India and Myanmmar (Chou, 2000); it is however locally extinct in Thailand due to habitat destruction. Larval host plants known to date are all Aristolochiaceae.
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