Lamproptera meges

Green dragontail
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Papilionidae
Genus: Lamproptera
Species:
L. meges
Binomial name
Lamproptera meges

Lamproptera meges, the green dragontail, is a species of swallowtail butterfly (family Papilionidae) found in parts of South Asia and Southeast Asia.[1] There are ten subspecies.[1] A specimen from Java is the type species of the genus Lamproptera.[2]

  1. ^ a b Collins, N. Mark; Morris, Michael G. (1985). "Lamproptera meges (Zinken-Sommer, 1831)". Threatened Swallowtail Butterflies of the World: The IUCN Red Data Book. Gland & Cambridge: IUCN. p. 52. ISBN 978-2-88032-603-6 – via Biodiversity Heritage Library.
  2. ^ Cite error: The named reference Bingham (1907) Vol II was invoked but never defined (see the help page).