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Black Butterfly - Papilio polyxenes

Black Butterfly - Papilio polyxenes
Fayetteville, Washington County, Arkansas, USA

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Your location may preclude the P. polyxenes coloro subspecies;
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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 .