Eastern Tiger Swallowtail DIN0282
by Gerry Gantt
Title
Eastern Tiger Swallowtail DIN0282
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Gerry Gantt
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Photograph - Photography
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2019 Photograph, Eastern Tiger Swallowtail (Papilio glaucus, Swallowtail Butterfly Family, Papilionidae) on Buttonbush, Huntley Meadows, Alexandria, Virginia. © 2019.
An interesting side-line on this butterfly is its scientific name. "Glaucus" means bluish-gray in Latin. Linnaeus, who established the scientific name, had a black form female which he used in naming the species based on her color. Even though the majority of females and all males are the typical tiger-stripe form, the name had been established and the Tiger has been, scientifically speaking, the Bluish-gray Swallowtail ever since.
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July 24th, 2019
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