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Subfamily † Praepapilioninae. † Praepapilio. Swallowtail butterfly. Swallowtail butterflies are large, colorful butterflies in the family Papilionidae, and include over 550 species. Though the majority are tropical, members of the family inhabit every continent except Antarctica. The family includes the largest butterflies in the world, the ...
Pachliopta aristolochiae. (Fabricius, 1775) [1] Synonyms. Atrophaneura aristolochiae. Pachliopta aristolochiae, the common rose, [2][3] is a species of swallowtail butterfly belonging to the genus Pachliopta, the roses, or red-bodied swallowtails. It is a common butterfly which is extensively distributed across south and southeast Asia. [2][3]
Battus philenor. (Linnaeus, 1771) Subspecies. See text. Battus philenor, the pipevine swallowtail or blue swallowtail, [3][4] is a swallowtail butterfly found in North America and Central America. This butterfly is black with iridescent-blue hindwings. They are found in many different habitats, but are most commonly found in forests. [5]
Chermock & R. Chermock, 1945. The eastern giant swallowtail (Papilio cresphontes) is the largest butterfly in North America. [ 2 ] It is abundant through many parts of eastern North America; populations from western North America and down into Panama are now (as of 2014) considered to belong to a different species, Papilio rumiko. [ 3 ]
Papilio turnus Linnaeus[2] Papilio glaucus, the eastern tiger swallowtail, is a species of butterfly native to eastern North America. It is one of the most familiar butterflies in the eastern United States, [3] ranging north to southern Ontario, Canada, [4] and is common in many different habitats. It flies from spring until fall, during which ...
Papilio machaon, the Old World swallowtail, is a butterfly of the family Papilionidae. The butterfly is also known as the common yellow swallowtail or simply the swallowtail (a common name applied to all members of the family, but this species was the first to be given the name). It is the type species of the genus Papilio.
Papilio troilus, the spicebush swallowtail or green-clouded butterfly, is a common black swallowtail butterfly found in North America. [2] It has two subspecies, Papilio troilus troilus and Papilio troilus ilioneus, the latter found mainly in the Florida peninsula. [3] The spicebush swallowtail derives its name from its most common host plant ...
Papilio is a genus in the swallowtail butterfly family, Papilionidae, as well as the only representative of the tribe Papilionini.The word papilio is Latin for butterfly. [2]It includes the common yellow swallowtail (Papilio machaon), which is widespread in the Northern Hemisphere and the type species of the genus, as well as a number of other well-known North American species such as the ...