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.

References

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.

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