Lamproptera is a genus of butterflies in the family Papilionidae and the tribe Leptocircini.

Lamproptera
Lamproptera meges (Ulster Museum)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Papilionidae
Tribe: Leptocircini
Genus: Lamproptera
Gray, 1832[1]
Synonyms
  • Leptocircus Swainson, 1833

Species edit

Image Scientific name Common Name Distribution
  Lamproptera curius (Fabricius, 1787) white dragontail Thailand, Laos, Vietnam, southern China, Kampuchea, Malaysia, Indonesia, Brunei, and the Philippines. India from Assam to Burma
  Lamproptera meges (Zinken, 1831) green dragontail India, in the states of Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, Manipur and Nagaland, Myanmar, Thailand, Laos, Vietnam, southern China (including Hainan), Cambodia, peninsular and eastern Malaysia, the Indonesian archipelago, Brunei, and the Philippines.

References edit

  1. ^ Lamproptera at funet.fi