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Black Swallowtail - Hodges#4159 (Papilio polyxenes)
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Black Swallowtail (Papilio polyxenes asterius)
Photo#1464914
Copyright © 2017
Paul Wolf
Black Butterfly -
Papilio polyxenes
Fayetteville, Washington County, Arkansas, USA
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Contributed by
Paul Wolf
on 7 November, 2017 - 11:25am
Last updated 8 November, 2017 - 5:13pm
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Cliff Ivy
, 8 November, 2017 - 5:13pm
Welcome to BugGuide!
Your location may preclude the
P. polyxenes coloro
subspecies;
here are the
Papilio polyxenes
possibilities:
https://bugguide.net/node/view/2636/tree
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Thom Mitchell
, 7 November, 2017 - 1:18pm
ID of this Butterfly 🦋
Try…
Papilio polyxenes coloro
(Papilio rudkini)
As with the Black Swallowtail… in the Southwest, yellow forms predominate in the subspecies P. coloro.
http://www.arizonensis.org/sonoran/fieldguide/arthropoda/papilio_polyxenes_rudkini.html
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Bkripto
, 7 November, 2017 - 11:41am