- Papilio zalmoxis
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image_caption = Papilio zalmoxis
regnum =Animal ia
phylum =Arthropod a
classis =Insect a
ordo =Lepidoptera
familia =Papilionidae
genus = "Papilio "
species = "P. zalmoxis"
binomial = "Papilio zalmoxis"
binomial_authority = Hewitson,1864 "Papilio zalmoxis" or Giant Blue Swallowtail is an African butterfly.
Previously thought to produce a blue colour by Tyndall scattering, [ [http://www.jstor.org/sici?sici=0080-4649(19760630)193%3A1113%3C441%3ATCOPZA%3E2.0.CO%3B2-%23 Huxley, J: "The Coloration of Papilio zalmoxis and P. antimachus, and the Discovery of Tyndall Blue in Butterflies", Proc. R. Soc. Lond B., Vol. 193, No. 1113 (Jun. 30, 1976), pp. 441-453] ] the scales of "Papilio zalmoxis" are not nanostructured for incoherent scattering the blue is a fluorescent pigmentary colour. [ [http://jeb.biologists.org/cgi/content/figsonly/209/4/748 Prum et al: "Anatomically diverse butterfly scales all produce structural colours by coherent scattering", J. Exp. Biol. 209 (4) 748] ]
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