vineri, 8 martie 2019

Un fluture botezat Zalmoxis!


 



     Papilio zalmoxis, the giant blue swallowtail, is an African butterfly belonging to the family Papilionidae. The name of the species is given in honor of Zalmoxis - a divinity of the Getae (a people of the lower Danube), mentioned by Herodotus in his Historiae IV, 93-96.

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