Many decades ago I was taught that the North American entomologists
followed the ESA common name protocol - adjective noun separation of
words. So if there is an adjective modifying a recognized group, it is
separated: honey bee, alkali bee, sweat bee, bee fly, chicken louse,
cat flea. Since a butterfly is not a fly, it is a butterfly so you
have swallowtail butterfly.
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