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Papilio xuthus, the Asian swallowtail, Chinese yellow swallowtail or Xuthus swallowtail, is a yellowcolored, medium to large sized swallowtail butterfly found in northeast Asia, northern Myanmar, southern China, the Korean Peninsula, Japan (from Hokkaid to the Yaeyama Islands), Siberia and the Haw

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Papilio xuthus, also called Asian Swallowtail or Japanischer Schwalbenschwanz is a well-known butterfly from the Palaearctic ecozone (Asia). The first description was in 1767 by Linnaeus.