Papilioninae Papilionidae Rhopalocera Lepidoptera

Adult swallowtails are large, familiar butterflies of many species in the lepidopteran family Papilionidae. This relatively small, mostly tropical family contains about 500-600 known species of large, brightly colored, often sexually dimorphic, butterflies. The world’s largest butterflies are swallowtails.

• Zebra Swallowtail (Eurytides marcellus) - Identification tips, life history, and ecology of this species. Includes rhopalocera photo and range map.
• Papilio troilus: Spicebush Swallowtail - Photographs of the life stages of this butterfly, its distribution, papilionidae description and life cycle.
• Ruby-spotted Swallowtail (Papilio anchisiades) - Fact sheet describes life history, physical traits, and ecology. Provides papilionidae an image and distribution map.
• Papilio polyxenes: Carrot caterpillar - Exercise from Invertebrate Anatomy OnLine covering the systematics, natural history, papilionidae external and internal anatomy of this larva.
• Black Swallowtail Caterpillar: Papilio polyxenes - Photographs of these handsome caterpillars and information on the natural papilioninae history of the species.
• Papilio palamedes: Palamedes Swallowtail - Photographs of the life stages of this butterfly, papilionidae its distribution, rhopalocera description and life cycle.
• Eurytides marcellus: Zebra Swallowtail - Photographs of the life stages of this butterfly, rhopalocera its distribution, description and life cycle.
• Spicebush Swallowtail (Papilio troilus) - Photos of this species taken in Florida and Michigan.
• Papilio cresphontes: Giant Swallowtail - Photographs of this large butterfly and its destructive papilionidae larvae, its rhopalocera distribution, description, life cycle and control.
• Batesian Mimicry in Papilio dardanus - Photographs showing how this species mimics unpalatable butterfly species in papilioninae the family Danaidae.
• Battus polydamas lucayus: Polydamas Swallowtail - Photographs of this handsome butterfly and its larvae, papilioninae its distribution, rhopalocera description and life cycle.
• Pink-spotted Swallowtail (Papilio pharnaces) - Fact sheet describes life history, physical traits, and ecology. Provides papilioninae a photo and range map.
• Batesian Mimicry in Papilio memnon - Photographs showing how this species mimics unpalatable swallowtail species.
• Western Tiger Swallowtail (Papilio rutulus) - Physical traits of caterpillar and adult, range, habitat, and ecology. rhopalocera Includes image.
• Ornythion Swallowtail (Papilio ornythion) - Photos of this species taken in Mexico.
• Giant Swallowtail (Papilio cresphontes) - Identification tips, ecology, and life history. Provides photos rhopalocera and distribution papilioninae map.
• Anise Swallowtail (Papilio zelicaon) - Image of this species in Windy Hill Open Space Preserve, papilioninae California.
• Old World Swallowtail (Papilio machaon) - Discusses physical characteristics, range, habitat, diet, and ecology papilionidae of this papilionidae species. Provides photo and references.
• Papilio glaucus: Tiger Swallowtail - Photographs of this handsome butterfly and its larvae, its distribution, description and life cycle.
• Indra Swallowtail - An illustrated guide to geographic variation in this papilioninae species and rhopalocera its larval host plants, by Dr. papilioninae Wayne H. Whaley.
• Papilio aristodemus ponceanus: Schaus Swallowtail - Photographs of this butterfly and its larvae, its rhopalocera distribution, description, papilionidae life cycle and conservation status.
• Pipevine Swallowtail - Photos of adult of this species and caterpillars papilionidae in various stages.
• Two-Tailed Swallowtail (Papilio multicaudata) - Physical characteristics, habitat, diet, and ecology. Describes range and includes papilionidae photo.
• Canadian Tiger Swallowtail (Papilio canadensis) - Describes physical characteristics, range, habitat, diet, and ecology papilioninae of this papilioninae species. Provides an image.
• Black Swallowtail: Papilio polyxenes - Photographs, description, range, life history, food plants, habitat and status.

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