Papilio Veiovis
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''Papilio veiovis'' is a
species A species () is often defined as the largest group of organisms in which any two individuals of the appropriate sexes or mating types can produce fertile offspring, typically by sexual reproduction. It is the basic unit of Taxonomy (biology), ...
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swallowtail butterfly Swallowtail butterflies are large, colorful butterflies in the family Papilionidae, and include over 550 species. Though the majority are tropical, members of the family inhabit every continent except Antarctica. The family includes the larg ...
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Papilio ''Papilio'' is a genus in the swallowtail butterfly family, Papilionidae, as well as the only representative of the tribe Papilionini. The word ''papilio'' is Latin for butterfly. It includes the common yellow swallowtail ('' Papilio machaon'') ...
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Sulawesi Sulawesi ( ), also known as Celebes ( ), is an island in Indonesia. One of the four Greater Sunda Islands, and the List of islands by area, world's 11th-largest island, it is situated east of Borneo, west of the Maluku Islands, and south of Min ...
. P. veiovis Hew. (= samanganus Fruhst.) (20 d). The lateral spots of the abdomen united into transverse bands, which are interrupted above. Markings of the wings '' dissimilis''-like; ground-colour white, often yellowish, especially on the under surface of the hindwing, the veins, the cell-stripes and a broad marginal area which encloses light double stripes black; the forewing elongated, with incurved distal margin; the hindwing at the abdominal margin much longer than in ''
clytia In Greek mythology, the name Clytie (Ancient Greek: Κλυτίη, Ionic) or Clytia (, Attic and other dialects) may refer to: *Clytie (Oceanid), known for her unrequited love for Helios. Out of jealousy, Clytie arranged the death of Leucothoe, ...
'', with distinctly projecting tooth at the 3. radial and yellow anal spot. The female has broader wings than the male .— North and South Celebes; the differences given by Fruhstorfer between northern and southern specimens are not confirmed by the 16 examples before me ordan The butterfly according to Fruhstorfer drinks at puddles and at the edges of brooks, the wings being kept closed. Jordan, K. in Seitz, A. Band 9: Abt. 2, Die exotischen Großschmetterlinge, Die indo-australischen Tagfalter, 1927, 1197 Seiten 177 Tafel
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veiovis Butterflies described in 1865 Butterflies of Indonesia Taxa named by William Chapman Hewitson {{Papilionidae-stub