Sericinus montela Gray, 1852 is a animal in the Papilionidae family, order Lepidoptera, kingdom Animalia. Not known to be toxic.
Sericinus montela Gray, 1852
Sericinus montela, the dragon swallowtail, is the only monotypic genus Sericinus swallowtail found across East Asia and the Russian Far East.
Sericinus is a genus of swallowtail butterflies that belongs to the subfamily Parnassiinae. This genus has a complex taxonomic history, and multiple different names have been used for its only species. The single species in this monotypic genus is Sericinus montela Gray, 1852, commonly called the dragon swallowtail. This species is distributed across the Russian Far East (south of Primorsky Krai), Korea, China, and Japan.
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Papilio aegeus Donovan, 1805
Mimoides thymbraeus (Boisduval, 1836)
Graphium nomius (Esper, 1798)
Atrophaneura horishanus (Matsumura, 1910)
Protesilaus macrosilaus (Gray, 1853)
Protesilaus protesilaus (Linnaeus, 1758)
Sources: GBIF, iNaturalist, Wikipedia, NCBI Taxonomy · Disclaimer
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