"Mountain blue" redirects here. For the pigment, see Azurite. For the other butterfly with this name, see Albulina pheretes.
Ulysses butterfly
Scientific classification
Domain:
Eukaryota
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Insecta
Order:
Lepidoptera
Family:
Papilionidae
Genus:
Papilio
Species:
P. ulysses
Binomial name
Papilio ulysses
Linnaeus, 1758
Subspecies
P. u. autolycus C.Felder & R.Felder, 1865
P. u. denticulatus Joicey & Talbot, 1916
P. u. dirce Jordan, 1909
P. u. jennifeae Jakusch, 2007
P. u. ulysses Linnaeus, 1758
See text
Papilio ulysses, the Ulysses butterfly (also known as the blue mountain swallowtail butterfly or Blue emperor), is a large swallowtail butterfly, in the subgenus Achillides, of Australia, Indonesia, Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands. Its size varies depending on subspecies, but the wingspan is about 10.5 cm (4.1 in) in Queensland.[1]
This butterfly is used as an emblem for tourism in Queensland, Australia.
^Wildlife of Tropical North Queensland: Cooktown to MacKay. Queensland Museum. (2000), p. 114.
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