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Dragon Swallowtail

Sericinus montela

About

A delicate white swallowtail with black veins and red spots, bearing long spatulate tails. It has a weak fluttering flight close to the ground.

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Did You Know?

It belongs to a primitive lineage of swallowtails that diverged from other papilionids over 60 million years ago.