Battus philenor (Lepidoptera, Papilionidae)
Specimen not available for photography; Voucher at University of Cornell.
Locality: USA: VA, Bedford Co.
DNA number FS-a-3.
Specimen used in studies by:
EV Zakharov, MS Caterino and FAH Sperling, 2004. Molecular phylogeny, historical biogeography, and divergence time estimates for swallowtail butterflies of the genus Papilio (lepidoptera: Papilionidae). Systematic Biology 53 (2004): 193-215.
V Nazari, EV Zakharov and FAH Sperling, 2007. Phylogeny, historical biogeography, and taxonomic ranking of Parnassiinae based on morphology and seven genes. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, in review.
Simonsen TJ, Zakharov EV,
Djernæs M, Cotton AM, Vane-Wright RI, Sperling FAH [2010]. Phylogenetics and divergence times of Papilioninae (Lepidoptera)
with special reference to the enigmatic genera Teinopalpus and Meandrusa. Cladistics
(pre publication).
GenBank Accession Numbers for COI-COII AF170875, 16S DQ351033, EF1a AF173415, and Wingless DQ351130.
MS Caterino, RD Reed, MM Kuo and FAH Sperling, 2001. A partitioned likelihood analysis of swallowtail butterfly Phylogeny (Lepidoptera: Papilionidae). Systematic Biology 50 (2001): 106-127).