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White Dragontail Butterfly
Lamproptera curius
Lamproptera curius, the white dragontail, is a species of swallowtail butterfly native to parts of South Asia and Southeast Asia. It belongs to the dragontails genus, Lamproptera, of the swallowtail (Papilionidae) family. It is not rare.
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 135257.