for the locality I only know that this is from Quebec Canada but I'm not sure whether it is brevicauda or polyxenes or a hybrid between those two?
Papilio brevicauda ssp? or Papilio polyxenes or hybrid?
- Deflatedoctopus
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It is a native papilio brevicauda male (from a larva collected in the wild) from Rivière-au-Tonnere on the northeast coast of the St-Lawrence of river in the Quebec Province
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It does look like P. brevicauda but its tails are oddly long.
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It is a native papilio brevicauda male (from a larva collected in the wild) from Rivière-au-Tonnere on the northeast coast of the St-Lawrence of river in the Quebec Province
Oh i see now thank you so much
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La longueur des queues varient d'un spécimen à l'autre...
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Hi All,
for your convenience 2 pictures of a female aberrant with the same origin as yours.
back to topic: the tails of your male are longer than usual. I would attribute this to intra species variation.
Kind regards
Felix
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Hi, Acorn & Sheldon say, beside short tails, the forewing hind angle is more rounded in brevicaudata. (As it is in your specimen.) As you move east to NF, the Short-tailed becomes more orange (underside), as you can see on can clearly see in lepidoqc's pictures.
So, Deflateoctopus, you may have a picture of the underside?
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