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Papilio alexiares

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Class
  
Insecta

Family
  
Papilionidae

Rank
  
Species

Phylum
  
Arthropoda

Order
  
Lepidoptera

Genus
  
Papilio

Similar
  
Papilio ornythion, Papilio andraemon, Papilio rogeri, Papilio erostratus, Papilio amynthor

Papilio alexiares, the Mexican tiger swallowtail, is a species of swallowtail butterfly from the genus Papilio that is found in Mexico and southern Texas.

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Subspecies

  • Papilio alexiares alexiares (east-central Mexico)
  • Papilio alexiares garcia Rothschild & Jordan, 1906 north-eastern Mexico, western Texas

    • Taxonomy

    It is sometimes listed as a subspecies of Papilio glaucus.

    References

    Papilio alexiares Wikipedia
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