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Olga! The spread underside photo needed. It's male, by the way. Better to have it prepared. Might appear to be something new.
25.05.2012, Yury Karpov: I looked right into its eyes. Well, your ophthalmology skills seem to be bad support. You'd rather read something on Neptis.
Alexandr! I unluckily have no Papilio polytes ledebouria female only male so can't compare. You should've seen its females in Thailand, Papilio polytes romulus subspecies [Cramer, 1775]. As the photo was not signed, I identified it as polytes and even now I'm sure of that it's a polytes female. As for the Papilio alphenor, the article is to be looked up.
I'll try to clear the situation. Papilio alphenor Cramer, [1776]; is described as a species, http://www.archive.org/stream/deuitlandschekap11779cram#page/n381/mode/1up, then it's noted as a subspecies of Papilio polytes alphenor ; Rothschild, 1895, http://www.archive.org/stream/novitateszoologi02lond#page/351/mode/1up, also there is such a thing like Papilio alphenor ; Vane-Wright & de Jong, ...
The exact size really needed. Please, note if it's not hard for you to. No doubt as for the species itself, I just need it for statistics.
Olga! I would kindly ask you to upload more pre-imago stage photos since there are lots of imago stage ones. As to all species.
Olga, Vasily, what makes you both feel doubtful? This genus shows marked sexual dimorphism as well as many Pieridae do. This is a female though you can see the male too on the other photo. In Vietnam I came across the mass flight or migration maybe of this species. I could see at that moment hundreds of flying butterflies albeit it was rather hard to catch one.