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Posted: **Fri Aug 04, 2023 6:38 am**

One of my friends showed her specimens of Papilio memnon on Baidu Post Bar (ID: 饼干和大饼) and one of them attracted me and I mirror the picture here. It is female Papilio agenor, and I suppose it might be f. distantianus according to the pattern on hindwings but its tails are really very small (I think it really has two tails but not tailless one). It was bred by herself.

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Posted: **Fri Aug 04, 2023 8:26 am**

Yes, this is a tailless (just reduced to points) form distantianus. I have never seen this before in P. agenor despite breeding thousands of them.

Adam.

Posted: **Fri Aug 04, 2023 2:46 pm**

adamcotton wrote: Fri Aug 04, 2023 8:26 am Yes, this is a tailless (just reduced to points) form distantianus. I have never seen this before in P. agenor despite breeding thousands of them.

Adam.

Thank you Adam ^0^. I have never seen it, ether. But I have seen a tailless male Papilio polytes previously, not alphenor.

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Papilio agenor f. distantianus with very very SMALL tails

Papilio agenor f. distantianus with very very SMALL tails

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