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Short-horned Baronia

Baronia brevicornis

Classification

Class
Insecta

Baronia brevicornis, commonly known as the short-horned baronia, is a species of butterfly in the monotypic genus Baronia and is placed in a subfamily of its own, the Baroniinae, a sister group of the remainder of the swallowtail butterflies. It is endemic to a very small area of Mexico, where the distribution is patchy and restricted. The genus is named after Oscar Theodor Baron who collected the first specimen in the Sierra Madre region of Mexico.

Distribution

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