Chinese three-tailed swallowtail butterfly
Indigenous hunters collected this Chinese Three-tailed Swallowtail BUTTERFLY in Siao-Lou, Yuin-Kin, China in 1899. The Trustees at the British Museum gave RAMM this specimen which was part of the Oberthur collection.
Object Summary
- Accession Loan No.
- 105/1936/33
- Category
- Natural History
- Collection Class
- Arthropods
- Collection Area Region
- East Asia
- Collector Excavator
- British Museum Natural History (from the collection of): Oberthur, Mr (from the collection of)
- Common Name
- Chinese three-tailed swallowtail butterfly
- Simple Name
- insect: butterfly
- Period Classification
- Victorian (1837-1901)
