Garcia Mexican Tiger Swallowtail

Papilio alexiares garcia

Classification

Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Papilionidae

Papilio alexiares, the Mexican tiger swallowtail, is a species of swallowtail butterfly from the genus Papilio that is found in Mexico and southern Texas. Subspecies Papilio alexiares alexiares (east-central Mexico) Papilio alexiares garcia Rothschild & Jordan, 1906 north-eastern Mexico, western Texas Taxonomy It is sometimes listed as a subspecies of Papilio glaucus.

Distribution

Garcia Mexican Tiger Swallowtail — (c) Boris Grozev, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

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Countries in the Picchu catalog

Mexico · 14

Sources and credits

Photo(c) Boris Grozev, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY DescriptionPapilio alexiares, Wikipedia contributors

Garcia Mexican Tiger Swallowtail

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