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| Dorsal perspective of male (above) and female (below) C. c. cressida mounted specimens. A sphragis is partially visible on the female. | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Papilionidae |
| Subfamily: | Papilioninae |
| Tribe: | Troidini |
| Genus: | Cressida Swainson, 1832 |
| Species: | C. cressida
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| Binomial name | |
| Cressida cressida | |
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| Distribution map of Cressida cressida in Australia. Note: distribution is not limited to Australia. | |
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Cressida cressida, the clearwing swallowtail or big greasy, is a Troidine swallowtail butterfly found in northern Australia, New Guinea, Maluku, and Timor. It is in the monotypic genus Cressida.[1]
Remarkably, this species is not particularly closely related to other Asian swallowtails, but instead seems to be the closest living relative of the peculiar South American swallowtails of genus Euryades.
- ^ a b Savela, Markku. "Cressida". Funet. Retrieved 24 July 2015.