This Papilio paris L., or Paris peacock butterfly, is one of the digitized images being published online from the collections of the Linnean Society of London.
Butterflies and moths — many of them reference or 'type' specimens named by Carl Linnaeus — are being added to celebrate Britain's National Insect Week in late June. The society has already put plant specimens and correspondence online at http://www.linnean.org
The Paris peacock is a swallowtail butterfly native to southeast Asia.
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Virtual butterflies. Nature 453, 969 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1038/453969a
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