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PAPILIONIDAE;

PAPILIONINAE;

PAPILIONINI

(Fluted Swallowtail)

Tribe of swallowtail butterflies that includes the genera Achillides, Chilasa, Menelaides and Papilio.

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The antennae are not scaled.  The male lacks a row of long hair-like sex-scales along the dorsum on the upperside.  The hind margin of the hindwing of males is bent downward (“fluted”),  unlike that in other Papilioninae.  The young larvae of many species and older larvae of some curiously resemble bird droppings.  Other larvae resemble miniature snakes, with eyes and an orange tongue-like osmeterium that pops out.  Adults are edible to birds.

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