Lamproptera
Genus of butterflies
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Lamproptera is a genus of butterflies in the family Papilionidae and the tribe Leptocircini.
| Lamproptera | |
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| Lamproptera meges (Ulster Museum) | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Papilionidae |
| Tribe: | Leptocircini |
| Genus: | Lamproptera Gray, 1832[1] |
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Species
| Image | Scientific name | Common name | Distribution |
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 | Lamproptera curius (Fabricius, 1787) | white dragontail | Thailand, Laos, Vietnam, southern China, Kampuchea, Malaysia, Indonesia, Brunei, and the Philippines. India from Assam to Burma |
.jpg) | Lamproptera meges (Zinken, 1831) | green dragontail | India, in the states of Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, Manipur and Nagaland, Myanmar, Thailand, Laos, Vietnam, southern China (including Hainan), Cambodia, peninsular and eastern Malaysia, the Indonesian archipelago, Brunei, and the Philippines. |
