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Lamproptera meges
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| Lamproptera meges Zinken-Sommer, 1831 |
The Green Dragontail, Lamproptera meges, is a species of swallowtail found in parts of South Asia and Southeast Asia. It belongs to the Dragontails genus , Lamproptera, of the Swallowtail (Papilionidae) family. It is not rare.
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Males and females very closely resembles Lamproptera curius, but differs constants as follows:
- Transverse band across fore wing placed further in towards the base; this band on both fore and hind wing greenish, not white, and not as in curius with its outer margin hyaline on the fore wing; black terminal edging to fore wing narrower, of even width throughout. Male without sex-mark.[1]
The butterfly is found in India (Assam). It is also found in Burma, Thailand, Laos, Vietnam, Southern China, Kampuchea, Malaysia, the Indonesian archipelago, Brunei and Philippines.
The Green Dragontail is not known to be threatened in most of its range but is considered Vulnerable and in need of protection in peninsular Malaysia.[2]
Illigera burmanica.[1]
- ^ a b Bingham, C. T. 1907. Fauna of British India. Butterflies. Volume 2
- ^ Collins, N.M., Morris, M.G. (1985) Threatened Swallowtail Butterflies of the World. IUCN. ISBN 978-2-88032-603-6
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