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Great Mormon Swallowtail
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Great Mormon Swallowtail

Papilio memnon

Papilio memnon, the great Mormon, is a large butterfly native to southern Asia that belongs to the swallowtail family. It is widely distributed and has thirteen subspecies. The female is polymorphic and with mimetic forms.

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Great Mormon Swallowtail in The Malay Archipelago: The Land of the Orang-Utan and the Bird of Paradise

The Malay Archipelago: The Land of the Orang-Utan and the Bird of Paradise

Alfred Russel Wallace · 1869 · p.159

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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 133442.