Wiped out by an earthquake? The 'extinct' Taiwanese swallowtail butterfly (Lepidoptera, Papilionidae) was

Vazrick Nazari1, Shen-Horn Yen2, Yu-Feng Hsu3

  • 1Department of Biology, University of Padova, Padova, Italy.

Plos One
|November 20, 2024
PubMed

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