Papilio alexiares

Updated on Dec 25, 2024

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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.

Subspecies

Papilio alexiares alexiares (east-central Mexico)

Papilio alexiares garcia Rothschild & Jordan, 1906 north-eastern Mexico, western Texas

It is sometimes listed as a subspecies of Papilio glaucus.

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