Papilio pericles, the Lyretailed phoenix or Timor blue swallow tail or Pericles's giant blue machaon is a butterfly of the family Papilionidae. it is found on Timor and the surrounding islands eastward to the Tanimbar archipelago.
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Papilionidae |
| Genus: | Papilio |
| Species: | P. pericles
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| Papilio pericles Wallace, 1865
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The wingspan is 70–90 mm.
Other reading
edit- Erich Bauer and Thomas Frankenbach, 1998 Schmetterlinge der Erde, Butterflies of the world Part I (1), Papilionidae Papilionidae I: Papilio, Subgenus Achillides, Bhutanitis, Teinopalpus. Edited by Erich Bauer and Thomas Frankenbach. Keltern : Goecke & Evers; Canterbury : Hillside Books ISBN 9783931374624
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