Protographium zonaria

Protographium zonaria
Protographium zonaria and related species
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Papilionidae
Genus: Protographium
Species: P. zonaria
Binomial name
Protographium zonaria
(Butler, 1869)[1]
Synonyms
  • Papilio zonaria Butler, [1870]
  • Neographium zonaria

Protographium zonaria is a butterfly of the family Papilionidae. It is found in the Neotropical ecozone (Haiti and the Dominican Republic).

Description

The pale bands narrow; the 4. and 5. pale green cell-bands of the forewing continuous with the discal band, narrow, separated from one another.[2]

Taxonomy

May be placed in Neographium.

References

  1. Protographium at funet
  2. Jordan, K. , in Seitz, A. ( 1907) . The Macrolepidoptera of the World. 5: The Macrolepidoptera of the American faunistic region. Papilionidae 1-45

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