Prothoe
Andrew V. Z. BrowerThis tree diagram shows the relationships between several groups of organisms.
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One species from Malaya and three from the New Guinea region. Parsons (1999) believes that P. layardi is distinct from P. australis.
References
Corbet AS, Pendlebury HM, and Eliot JN. 1992. The butterflies of the Malay Peninsula. Malayan Nature Society, Kuala Lumpur.
Parsons M. 1999. The butterflies of Papua New Guinea: their systematics and biology. Academic Press, San Diego.
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- First online 11 November 2006
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