Papilio demoleus

TaxID: 76202

Basic Information

Papilio demoleus

Checkered Swallowtail, Lime Butterfly, lime butterfly

Papilio demoleus is a common and widespread swallowtail butterfly. The butterfly is also known as the lemon butterfly and chequered swallowtail. These common names refer to their host plants, which are usually citrus species such as the cultivated lime. Unlike most swallowtail butterflies, it does not have a prominent tail. When the adult stage is taken into consideration, the lime swallowtail is the shortest-lived butterfly, with male adults dying after four days and females after a week. The butterfly is native to Asia and Australia, and can be considered an invasive pest in other parts of the world. The butterfly has spread to Hispaniola (in the Dominican Republic and Haiti) and the rest of the Antilles in the Western Hemisphere, and to Mah , Seychelles.

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Taxonomic Information

Metazoa

Arthropoda

Insecta

Lepidoptera

Papilionidae

Papilio

demoleus

unclassified

Photos (5 photos)

Papilio demoleus
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(c) Aniruddha Singhamahapatra@BY-NC-SA
Papilio demoleus
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(c) Soh Kam Yung@BY-NC
Papilio demoleus
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(c) Matt Endacott@BY-NC
Papilio demoleus
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(c) Denis Makhnovsky@BY-NC
Papilio demoleus
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(c) savita@BY-NC

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 (5 records)

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

Country Status Year Added
Chile Quarantine pests 2019
Costa Rica Absent —
Republic of Korea Quarantine pests —
Uruguay Absent —
United States of America Quarantine pests —

Distribution (55 countries)

Data Sources: EPPO Global Database and GBIF.

53
Present
2
Absent
0
Unknown/Other
Country Status State
Aruba Present —
Anguilla Present —
United Arab Emirates Present —
Australia Absent —
Azerbaijan Present —
Bangladesh Present —
Bahrain Present —
Brunei Darussalam Present —
Bhutan Present —
Cambodia Present —
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Distribution Map (Latitude and longitude coordinates sourced from GBIF.)

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Genomes (1 records)

Data source: NCBI.

Assembly Accession Assembly Level Genome Size(Mb) Contig N50(Kb) Scaffold N50(Kb) BUSCO% Downloads Actions
GCA_029286655.1 Scaffold 260 9123 9123 -

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.

Literature