
Cryptic New Species of Butterfly Identified in North America
Entomologists have described a new species of tiger swallowtail (genus Papilio) from eastern North America. Papilio solstitius: (a) male, holotype and (b) female, allotype. Scale bar – 10 mm. Image credit: DeRoller et al., doi: 10.3897/zookeys.1228.142202. Papilio is a large genus of swallowtail butterflies within the family Papilionidae. The only representative of the tribe Papilionini,…