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2 unusual facts about Papilio ophidicephalus


Emperor Swallowtail

Papilio ophidicephalus, endemic to tropical Africa, parts of the East African coast, and the Cape region

Papilio erithonioides

On the disk, the space between the stramineous band and the row of submarginal lunules is brightly irrorated with stramineous scales, in which, between the veins, are spaces less densely irrorated with the same colour, giving the appearance of indistinct black spots, with clusters of blue scales more orless distinct below each, resembling somewhat the mottled appearance of the posterior wings of P. ophidicephalus, Oberth.



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