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Peacock Swallowtails and Allies
Achillides
Achillides, the peacock swallowtails, are a subgenus within the genus Papilio containing 29 species and over 100 subspecies distributed across the Indo-Australian Archipelago from East Russia, the Indian subcontinent and to Australia.
31 branches of this group, most-observed first
Paris Peacock Swallowtail
speciesPapilio paris
Chinese Peacock Swallowtail
speciesPapilio bianor
Alpine Black Swallowtail
speciesPapilio maackii
Ulysses Butterfly
speciesPapilio ulysses
Common Banded Peacock Swallowtail
speciesPapilio crino
Japanese Peacock Swallowtail
speciesPapilio dehaanii
Taiwanese Glazed Swallowtail
speciesPapilio hermosanus
Swift Peacock Swallowtail
speciesPapilio peranthus
Emerald Peacock Swallowtail
speciesPapilio palinurus
Southern Chinese Peacock Swallowtail
speciesPapilio dialis
Malabar Banded Peacock Swallowtail
speciesPapilio buddha
Common Peacock
speciesPapilio polyctor
Papilio hopponis
speciesPapilio hopponis
Blue Peacock Swallowtail
speciesPapilio arcturus
Jungle Jade Swallowtail
speciesPapilio karna
Montrouzier's Ulysses Swallowtail
speciesPapilio montrouzieri
Peacock Swallowtail
speciesPapilio blumei
Papilio daedalus
speciesPapilio daedalus
Papilio arjuna
speciesPapilio arjuna
Chinese peacock
speciesPapilio ryukyuensis
Krishna peacock
speciesPapilio krishna
Yunnan Peacock
speciesPapilio syfanius
Glosswing Swallowtail
speciesPapilio pericles
Papilio telegonus
speciesPapilio telegonus
Sea Green Swallowtail
speciesPapilio lorquinianus
Papilio neumoegeni
speciesPapilio neumoegeni
Papilio orsippus
speciesPapilio orsippus
Luzon Peacock Swallowtail
speciesPapilio chikae
Papilio hermeli
speciesPapilio hermeli
Okinawa peacock
speciesPapilio okinawensis
yellow-crested spangle
speciesPapilio elephenor
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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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 565390.