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Swallowtails and Parnassians
Plate 1 of 8. (c) Ale Türkmen (The Butterfly Project Mexico), some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-ND), uploaded by Ale Türkmen (The Butterfly Project Mexico) · via iNaturalist

Swallowtails and Parnassians

Papilionidae

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 birdwing butterflies of the genus Ornithoptera.

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3 branches of this family, most-observed first

Swallowtails

subfamilyPapilioninae

Parnassians

subfamilyParnassiinae

Baronias

subfamilyBaroniinae

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 47223.