Papilio montrouzieri

Papilio montrouzieri
Figure 2, center (dorsal surface left and ventral surface right)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Papilionidae
Genus:	Papilio
Species:	P. montrouzieri
Binomial name
Papilio montrouzieri Boisduval, 1859
Synonyms
Papilio chaudoiri C. & R. Felder, 1860 Papilio ulysses var. ulyssinus Westwood, 1860 Papilio ulysses var. ulyssinus ab. ulyssellus Westwood, 1860 Papilio westwoodi Oberthür, 1879

Papilio montrouzieri, occasionally referred to as Montrouzier's Ulysses, is a species of swallowtail butterfly from the genus Papilio that is endemic to New Caledonia.^[1] It resembles the more widespread relative, Papilio ulysses. Its name refers to French entomologist, explorer and priest Xavier Montrouzier.

See also

• Biodiversity of New Caledonia

References

1. Papilio at Funet

• Erich Bauer and Thomas Frankenbach, 1998 Schmetterlinge der Erde, Butterflies of the World Part I (1), Papilionidae Papilionidae I: Papilio, Subgenus Achillides, Bhutanitis, Teinopalpus. Edited by Erich Bauer and Thomas Frankenbach. Keltern: Goecke & Evers; Canterbury: Hillside Books, ISBN 9783931374624 plate 9, figure 6
• Collins, N. Mark; Morris, Michael G. (1985). Threatened Swallowtail Butterflies of the World: The IUCN Red Data Book. Gland & Cambridge: IUCN. ISBN 978-2-88032-603-6.

External links

• The Global Butterfly Information System Images of syntype