Lamproptera
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Lamproptera is a genus of butterflies in the family Papilionidae and the tribe Leptocircini.
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 16
- Family
- Papilionidae
- Collections
- USNM, DMNS, NHMUK, MSU
- Recorded in
- Indonesia, Malaysia, India, China
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Leptocircini
- Image
- MegesCRW 4359.jpg
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- topic's main category
- Category:Lamproptera
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Lamproptera is a genus of butterflies in the family Papilionidae and the tribe Leptocircini.
==Species== {| class="wikitable" |- ! Image !! Scientific name !! Common name !! Distribution |- |120px ||Lamproptera curius (Fabricius, 1787) || white dragontail|| Thailand, Laos, Vietnam, southern China, Kampuchea, Malaysia, Indonesia, Brunei, and the Philippines. India from Assam to Burma |- |120px ||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. |- |}
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