PAPILIONIDAE

Swallowtails

Record a sighting Alerts
Name source
Australian Faunal Directory
Rank
family
Data links
LSID
JSON / WMS/ RDF

Life Science Identifier (LSID):

urn:lsid:biodiversity.org.au:afd.taxon:d8a16596-b1fa-4cbd-a52f-c7a7cb7a8e0a

LSIDs are persistent, location-independent,resource identifiers for uniquely naming biologically significant resources including species names, concepts, occurrences, genes or proteins, or data objects that encode information about them. To put it simply, LSIDs are a way to identify and locate pieces of biological information on the web.

Data Links

JSON

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WMS

To use WMS services, copy and paste the following GetCapabilities URL into your OGC client (e.g. uDIG, ESRI ArcGIS)
http://biocache.ala.org.au/ws/ogc/ows?q=family:PAPILIONIDAE
For higher taxa, this will give you a hierarchical listing of layers for each taxon.

RDF

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Further details

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Species presence

 Recorded In Australia
 Terrestrial Habitats

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Description

Large; antennae short; maxillary palps reduced to tiny projection; labial palps appressed to frons; epiphysis present, fore leg fully developed but pulvilli and aerolium reduced, spurs 0-2-2 or 2-1-1, tarsal claws usually simple; fore wing with R 4 and R 5 usually stalked, CuP usually present near base (often said to be a cross-vein between CuA and 1A), 2 anal veins, 2A stalked with 1A terminating on dorsum; hind wing with humeral vein present, Sc connected to Rs near base by R 1 , 1 anal vein. ... source: What bug is that

Online resources

Names and sources

Accepted name Source
PAPILIONIDAE

Common Names

Common name Source
Swallowtail Butterflies
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Swallowtails
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Working classification

kingdom
ANIMALIA
phylum
ARTHROPODA
subphylum
HEXAPODA
class
INSECTA
suprageneric
Pterygotes
order
LEPIDOPTERA
zoological_division
DITRYSIA
superfamily
PAPILIONOIDEA
family
PAPILIONIDAE  Recorded in Australia
subfamily
PAPILIONINAE  Recorded in Australia

Occurrence records

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Name references found in the Biodiversity Heritage Library

Name references found in the TROVE - NLA