Red-bodied swallowtail Red-bodied swallowtail Red-bodied swallowtails are butterflies in the swallowtail family, that belong to the genera "Atrophaneura", "Byasa", "Losaria", or "Pachliopta". They are generally found in Asia (Indomalaya ecozone). Collectors have found the red-bodied swallowtails difficult to kill. Pinching the thorax, a method which kills most butterflies, is withstood and apparently only stuns the butterfly temporarily. The eggs are simple. The larvae resemble those of other Troidini. Fleshy spine-like tubercles, often with red tips, line the caterpillars' backs, and their bodies are dark red to brown and velvety black or shades of grey with a pattern of black lines. They feed
Pythagorean comma cycle of perfect fifths were continued beyond 12 all the way to 53, the difference between this 53rd pitch and the starting pitch would be much smaller than the Pythagorean comma. This much smaller interval was later named Mercator's comma ("see: history of 53 equal temperament"). In George Russell's "Lydian Chromatic Concept of Tonal Organization" (1953) the half step between the Lydian Tonic and 2 in his Altered Major and Minor Auxiliary Diminished Blues scales is theoretically based on the interval of a Pythagorean comma. Pythagorean comma In musical tuning, the Pythagorean comma (or ditonic comma), named after the ancient