Leptocircini
Tribe of swallowtail butterflies
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Leptocircini is a tribe of swallowtail butterflies that includes the genera Eurytides (kite swallowtails), Graphium (swordtails), and Lamproptera (dragontails).
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| Macleay's swallowtail (Graphium macleayanus) | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Papilionidae |
| Subfamily: | Papilioninae |
| Tribe: | Leptocircini Kirby, 1896 |
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Taxonomy
The tribe consists of roughly 140 species in nine genera worldwide and one native North American species, Eurytides marcellus.
Genera
This tribe consists of the following genera:
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