''Protographium'' is a genus of mostly

Neotropical The Neotropical realm is one of the eight biogeographic realms constituting Earth's land surface. Physically, it includes the tropical terrestrial ecoregions of the Americas and the entire South American temperate zone. Definition In bi ...

swallowtail

butterflies Butterflies are insects in the macrolepidopteran clade Rhopalocera from the order Lepidoptera, which also includes moths. Adult butterflies have large, often brightly coloured wings, and conspicuous, fluttering flight. The group comprises t ...

in the subfamily

Papilioninae Papilioninae is a subfamily In biological classification, a subfamily (Latin: ', plural ') is an auxiliary (intermediate) taxonomic rank, next below family but more inclusive than genus. Standard nomenclature rules end subfamily botanical na ...

Taxonomy

The classification of species in the genus Protographium is undergoing changes as New World species are now being moved to other genera. :subgenus: ''Protographium'' :*'' Protographium leosthenes'' (Doubleday, 1846) subgenus: unassigned ::*'' Protographium × oberthueri'' Rothschild & Jordan, 1906 subgenus: ''Eurygraphium'' Möhn, 2002 :species group: ''thyastes'' ::*'' Protographium calliste'' (Bates, 1864)

References

*Edwin Möhn, 2002 ''Schmetterlinge der Erde, Butterflies of the world'' Part XIIII (14), Papilionidae VIII: Baronia, Euryades, Protographium, Neographium, Eurytides. Edited by Erich Bauer and Thomas Frankenbach Keltern : Goecke & Evers ; Canterbury : Hillside Books. All species and subspecies are included, also most of the forms. Several females are shown the first time in colour. Butterfly genera {{Papilionidae-stub

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