Papilio rutulus: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Class
- Insecta
- Order
- Lepidoptera
- Family
- Papilionidae
- Genus
- Papilio
- Species
- Papilio rutulus
- Scientific Name
- Papilio rutulus
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Papilio rutulus
Papilio rutulus, the western tiger swallowtail, is a swallowtail butterfly belonging to the Papilionidae family. The species was first described by Hippolyte Lucas in 1852.
Like the other tiger swallowtails, the western tiger swallowtail was formerly classified in genus Pterourus, but modern classifications all agree in placing them within Papilio.
...Papilio rutulus in languages:
- English
- Western Tiger Swallowtail
- French
- papillon tigré de l'Ouest
- German
- Westlicher Tigerschwalbenschwanz
- Japanese
- ニシトラフアゲハ
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Parent Taxon
Sibling Taxa
- Papilio alexiares
- Papilio appalachiensis
- Papilio ascolius
- Papilio bachus
- Papilio birchalli
- Papilio cacicus
- Papilio canadensis
- Papilio canadensis × eurymedon
- Papilio canadensis × glaucus
- Papilio cleotas
- Papilio coroebus
- Papilio elwesi
- Papilio esperanza
- Papilio eurymedon
- Papilio euterpinus
- Papilio garamas
- Papilio glaucus
- Papilio hellanichus
- Papilio homerus
- Papilio maraho
- Papilio menatius
- Papilio multicaudata
- Papilio neyi
- Papilio palamedes
- Papilio pilumnus
- Papilio rutulus
- Papilio rutulus × multicaudata
- Papilio scamander
- Papilio troilus
- Papilio warscewiczii
- Papilio xanthopleura
- Papilio zagreus
- Pterourus birchallii
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