Meandrusa payeni
Meandrusa payeni, the yellow gorgon, is a species of swallowtail found in parts of South Asia and Southeast Asia. It belongs to the hooked swallowtails genus, Meandrusa, of the family Papilionidae. It is also called the outlet sword or the sickle.
Yellow gorgon | |
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M. p. evan individual in Sikkim | |
Meandrusa payeni brunei (Fruhstorfer, 1894) | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Papilionidae |
Genus: | Meandrusa |
Species: | M. payeni |
Binomial name | |
Meandrusa payeni (Boisduval, 1836) | |
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