Papilio zelicaon

TaxID: 77252

Basic Information

Papilio zelicaon

Anise Swallowtail, Parsley Swallowtail

Papilio zelicaon, the Anise Swallowtail, is a common swallowtail butterfly of western North America. Both the upper and lower sides of its wings are black, but the upper wing has a broad yellow stripe across it, giving the butterfly an overall yellow appearance. There are striking blue spots on the rear edge of the rear wing, and the characteristic tails of the swallowtails. Its wingspan is 52 C80 mm (2.0 C3.1 in). Its body is somewhat shorter than the rather similar western tiger swallowtail, with which its range overlaps; it also lacks the black stripes, converging toward the tail, of the latter. There is a somewhat darker subspecies, P. z. nitra, which is rare throughout the range, though somewhat more often found at lower elevations.

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Taxonomic Information

Metazoa

Arthropoda

Insecta

Lepidoptera

Papilionidae

Papilio

zelicaon

unclassified

Photos (5 photos)

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(c) Robin Gwen Agarwal@BY-NC
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(c) Nicholas Rocha@BY-NC
Papilio zelicaon
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(c) Robin Gwen Agarwal@BY-NC
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(c) Alan Liang@BY-NC
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(c) stonebird@BY-NC-SA

Morphological Features

No morphological description available.

Host Plants (0 host plants)

Data sources: EPPO Global Database and relevant literature.

No host plants available.

Quarantine Status (1 records)

Data sources: IPPC website and national quarantine websites; verified by human review.

Country Status Year Added
Panama Quarantine pests —

Distribution (3 countries)

Data Sources: EPPO Global Database and GBIF.

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Present
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Absent
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Unknown/Other
Country Status State
Canada Present —
Mexico Present —
United States of America Present —

Distribution Map (Latitude and longitude coordinates sourced from GBIF.)

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Genomes (0 records)

Data source: NCBI.

No genome records available.

Transcriptomes (0 records)

Data source: NCBI.

No transcriptome records available.

DNA Barcodes (0 records)

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Data source: BOLD.

No DNA barcode records available.

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