🦋 Family

Papilionidae

176 species · Animals

Animalia › Arthropoda › Insecta › Lepidoptera › Papilionidae

Parnassius stubbendorfii Ménétriés, 1849 is an apollo butterfly with described morphology, variants, life cycle, and range.

Parnassius glacialis is a large Parnassius butterfly found in eastern China, Korea, and Japan, with variable wing markings.

Zerynthia rumina, the Spanish festoon, is a striking butterfly found across North Africa, Iberia and southern France.

Zerynthia polyxena, the southern festoon, is a European butterfly with distinct yellow and black patterned wings.

Zerynthia cerisy is a butterfly found in Southeast Europe and Anatolia with variable female forms, whose larvae feed on Aristolochia.

Zerynthia deyrollei is a Papilionidae butterfly found across parts of Western Asia, first described in 1869.

Sericinus montela, the dragon swallowtail, is the only monotypic genus Sericinus swallowtail found across East Asia and the Russian Far East.

The short-horned baronia (Baronia brevicornis) is a unique swallowtail butterfly species endemic to a small restricted area of Mexico.

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