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Papilio

Insecta - Lepidoptera - Papilionidae

Taxonomy

Papilio was named by Linnaeus (1758). It is extant.

It was assigned to Insecta by Geoffroy (1762); to Lepidoptera by Linnaeus (1758), Schreber (1759), Linnaeus (1761), Scopoli (1763), Müller (1764), Schaeffer (1766), Linnaeus (1767), Drury (1770), Forster (1771), Müller (1776), Latreille (1796); to Glossata by Fabricius (1775), Fabricius (1798); to Papilionides by Latreille (1802); to Papilionidae by Carpenter (1992); and to Papilioninae by Sohn et al. (2012).

Species

P. (Nymphalis), P. maackii

Synonymy list

Year	Name and author
1758	Papilio Linnaeus p. 458
1759	Papilio Schreber p. 12
1761	Papilio Linnaeus p. 267
1762	Papilio Geoffroy p. 26
1763	Papilio Scopoli p. 142
1764	Papilio Müller p. 32
1766	Papilio Schaeffer
1767	Papilio Linnaeus p. 744
1770	Papilio Drury
1771	Papilio Forster p. 73
1775	Papilio Fabricius p. 442
1776	Papilio Müller p. 111
1796	Papilio Latreille p. 140
1798	Papilio Fabricius p. 422
1802	Papilio Latreille p. 387
1992	Papilio Carpenter
2012	Papilio Sohn et al. p. 70

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Rank	Name	Author
kingdom	Animalia	()
—	Bilateria
—	Eubilateria	Ax 1987
—	Protostomia
—	Ecdysozoa	Aguinaldo et al. 1997
—	Panarthropoda
phylum	Arthropoda	Latreille 1829
—	Deuteropoda
—	Mandibulata
—	Pancrustacea	Zrzavý and Štys 1997
—	Altocrustacea	Regier et al. 2010
superclass	Allotriocarida
—	Athalassocarida
—	Labiocarida	Schwentner et al. 2017
superclass	Hexapoda	Latreille 1825
—	Cercofilata
class	Insecta
—	Dicondylia
—	Paranotalia
subclass	Pterygota	()
—	Neopterygota	Crampton 1924
infraclass	Neoptera	Martynov 1923
—	Holometabola

Rank	Name	Author
—	Aparaglossata
—	Panorpida
superorder	Amphiesmenoptera	Kiriakoff 1948
—	Metamphiesmenoptera
—	Euamphiesmenoptera
—	Panendymenoptera
—	Endymenoptera
—	Stelloptera
order	Lepidoptera
—	Angiospermivora
suborder	Glossata	()
—	Coelolepida	Nielsen and Kristensen 1996
infraorder	Heteroneura	Tillyard 1918
—	Eulepidoptera	Kiriakoff 1948
—	Euheteroneura
—	Ditrysia	Borner 1925
—	Apoditrysia	Minet 1983
—	Obtectomera	Minet 1986
superfamily	Papilionoidea
family	Papilionidae	()
subfamily	Papilioninae
genus	Papilio

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

G. Papilio Linnaeus 1758

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Subg. Papilio (Nymphalis) Linnaeus 1758

Papilio maackii Ménétriés 1859

Diagnosis

No diagnoses are available

Measurements

No measurements are available

Composition:

chitinc

Environment:

terrestrialc

Locomotion:

actively mobilep

Created:

2017-04-17 09:56:18

Modified:

2017-04-17 09:56:18

Source: c = class, p = phylum

References: Bush and Bambach 2015, Kiessling 2004

Age range

Maximum range based only on fossils: Chibanian or 0.77400 to 0.12900 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 0.129 Ma

Collections: one only

Time interval	Ma	Country or state	Original ID and collection number
Chibanian	0.774 - 0.129	Japan	P. maackii (162750)