Lamproptera meges

Taxobox
name = Green Dragontail

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regnum = Animalia
phylum = Arthropoda
classis = Insecta
ordo = Lepidoptera
familia = Papilionidae
genus = "Lamproptera"
species = "P. meges"
binomial = "Lamproptera meges"
binomial_authority = Zinken-Sommer, 1831The Green Dragontail, "Lamproptera meges", is a species of swallowtail found in parts of South Asia and Southeast Asia. It belongs to the Dragontails genus , "Lamproptera", of the Swallowtail (Papilionidae) family. It is not rare.

Description

Males and females very closely resembles "Lamproptera curius", but differs constants as follows:
* Transverse band across fore wing placed further in towards the base; this band on both fore and hind wing greenish, not white, and not as in "curius" with its outer margin hyaline on the fore wing; black terminal edging to fore wing narrower, of even width throughout. Male without sex-mark.Bingham, C. T. 1907. Fauna of British India. Butterflies. Volume 2]

Distribution

The butterfly is found in India (Assam). It is also found in Burma, Thailand, Laos, Vietnam, Southern China, Kampuchea, Malaysia, the Indonesian archipelago, Brunei and Philippines.

tatus

The Green Dragontail is not known to be threatened in most of its range but is considered Vulnerable and in need of protection in peninsular Malaysia. [Collins, N.M., Morris, M.G. (1985) "Threatened Swallowtail Butterflies of the World". IUCN. ISBN 978-2-88032-603-6]

Food plant

"Illigera burmanica".

References

ee also

*List of butterflies of India (Papilionidae)