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Papilionidae 77a0366 – 4159   Papilio polyxenes Fabricius, 1775

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Similar Species: Pinned specimens of related species. (Hint: select View by Region on the related species page.) Synonymy: polyxenes Fabricius 1775 (Papilio) - MONA 1983: 4159 ssp. a. polyxenes Fabricius 1775 (Papilio) - MONA 1983: 4159 ajax of authors not Linnaeus 1758 (Papilio) asterius Stoll, in: Cramer [1782] (Papilio) alunata Skinner & Aaron 1889 (Papilio) ampliata Ménétriés 1857 (Papilio) asterioides Reakirt [1867] (Papilio) calverleyi Grote 1864 (Papilio) curvifascia Skinner 1902 (Papilio) ehrmanni Ehrmann 1925 (Papilio) forsythae Wood 1937 (Papilio) gertrudis Kruck 1931 (Papilio) gracehus Fabricius 1938 (Papilio) masculina Reiff 1911 (Papilio) mediocauda Eimer 1895 (Papilio) pseudoamericus Brown [1943] (Papilio) semialba Ehrmann 1900 (Papilio) subamplicata Dufrane 1946 (Papilio) viridis Cockerell 1889 (Papilio) ssp. b. coloro Wright 1905 (Papilio) clarki Chermock & Chermock 1937 (Papilio) comstocki Chermock & Chermock 1937 (Papilio) rudkini Comstock 1935 (Papilio) ssp. c. stabilis Rothschild & Jordan 1906 (Papilio) ssp. d. americus Kollar 1850 (Papilio)

References

Barcode of Life (BOLD) - Caution: DNA barcode provides evidence of relatedness, not proof of identification, and some BOLD specimens shown may not be sequenced. Species Page at BugGuide.Net Species Page at the Butterflies of America

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