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Papilio paris

species of insect

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 19, 2026
Entity authorityQ977492 ↗
Source-derived summary

Papilio paris, the Paris peacock swallowtail, is a species of swallowtail butterfly found in the Indian subcontinent and southeast Asia.

Subspecies

P. p. arjuna Horsfield, 1828 (central Java)

P. p. battacorum Rothschild, 1908 (north-eastern Sumatra)

P. p. chinensis Rothschild, 1895 (western China)

P. p. gedeensis Fruhstorfer, 1893 (western Java)

P. p. hermosanus Rebel, 1906 (central Taiwan, southern Taiwan)

P. p. nakaharai Shirôzu, 1960 (northern Taiwan and Japan (Ryukyu Islands))

P. p. paris Linnaeus, 1758 (north-western India, south-western China, northern Thailand, Vietnam, southern Burma)

P. p. tamilana Linnaeus, 1758 (southern India)

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“Papilio paris” enters the record as species of insect. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Papilio, paris and species can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA sound reference starting point where classification, measurement and the date of the underlying evidence remain visible. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1828, 1908, 1895, 1893—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Papilio, paris and species.
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“Papilio paris” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Papilio, paris and species provides the most credible route into that argument.

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The date and method of observation matter as much as the stated conclusion, especially where classification or consensus has changed. The source revision retrieved here is dated Apr 19, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q977492. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1828, 1908, 1895 and 1893.

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This entry incorporates text from “Papilio paris” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.