Overview
Papilionini is the tribe of fluted swallowtails that includes the genus Papilio. It consists of roughly 200 species worldwide and 21 North American species. The hind margin of the hindwing of the males is bent downward (fluted), resulting in its name. Many of the larvae resemble bird droppings during a development stage. Adults are edible to birds and some species are mimics.
- The Butterflies of North America, James A. Scott, ISBN 0-8047-1205-0, 1986
Taxonomy
The Tribe Papilionini is a member of the Subfamily Papilioninae. Here is the complete "parentage" of Papilionini:
- Domain: Eukaryota
Whittaker & Margulis,1978 - eukaryotes
- Kingdom: Animalia
C. Linnaeus, 1758 - animals
- Subkingdom: Bilateria
(Hatschek, 1888) Cavalier-Smith, 1983 - bilaterians
- Branch: Protostomia
Grobben, 1908 - protostomes
- Infrakingdom: Ecdysozoa
A.M.A. Aguinaldo et al., 1997 ex T. Cavalier-Smith, 1998 - ecdysozoans
- Superphylum: Panarthropoda
Cuvier
- Phylum: Arthropoda
Latreille, 1829 - Arthropods
- Subphylum: Mandibulata
Snodgrass, 1938
- Infraphylum: Atelocerata
Heymons, 1901
- Superclass: Panhexapoda
- Class: Insecta
C. Linnaeus, 1758 - Insects
- Subclass: Dicondylia
- Infraclass: Pterygota
- Winged Insects
- Cohort: Myoglossata
- Order: Lepidoptera
Linnaeus, 1758 - Butterflies and Moths
- Infraorder: Heteroneura
- a genus of Longhorned Beetles (Cerambycidae)
- Family: Papilionidae
P.A. Latreille, [1802] - Swallowtails
- Subfamily: Papilioninae
- Swallowtails
- Tribe: Papilionini
- Subfamily: Papilioninae
- Swallowtails
- Family: Papilionidae
P.A. Latreille, [1802] - Swallowtails
- Infraorder: Heteroneura
- a genus of Longhorned Beetles (Cerambycidae)
- Order: Lepidoptera
Linnaeus, 1758 - Butterflies and Moths
- Cohort: Myoglossata
- Infraclass: Pterygota
- Winged Insects
- Subclass: Dicondylia
- Class: Insecta
C. Linnaeus, 1758 - Insects
- Superclass: Panhexapoda
- Infraphylum: Atelocerata
Heymons, 1901
- Subphylum: Mandibulata
Snodgrass, 1938
- Phylum: Arthropoda
Latreille, 1829 - Arthropods
- Superphylum: Panarthropoda
Cuvier
- Infrakingdom: Ecdysozoa
A.M.A. Aguinaldo et al., 1997 ex T. Cavalier-Smith, 1998 - ecdysozoans
- Branch: Protostomia
Grobben, 1908 - protostomes
- Subkingdom: Bilateria
(Hatschek, 1888) Cavalier-Smith, 1983 - bilaterians
- Kingdom: Animalia
C. Linnaeus, 1758 - animals
The Tribe Papilionini is further organized into finer groupings including:
- Genus (1): Papilio
- Species: ZipcodeZoo has pages for 2,657 species and subspecies in the Tribe Papilionini.
Genera
Papilio
Papilio is a genus in the swallowtail butterfly family, Papilionidae. The word papilio is Latin for butterfly. [more]
At least 2,657 species and subspecies belong to the Genus Papilio.
More info about the Genus Papilio may be found here.
References
- The Butterflies of North America, James A. Scott, ISBN 0-8047-1205-0, 1986
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