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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Butterflies and Skippers (Papilionoidea) » Swallowtails, Parnassians (Papilionidae) » Papilioninae » Fluted Swallowtails (Papilionini) » Papilio » Western Tiger Swallowtail - Hodges#4177 (Papilio rutulus)
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Western Tiger Swallowtail - Papilio rutulus
Copyright © 2015 C. Fred Zeillemaker

Western Tiger Swallowtail - Papilio rutulus
11.4 mi N of Ola, Gem County, Idaho, USA
September 22, 2015
At Xylem Acres on the ground below Black Cottonwood (Populus trichocarpa), a host plant. Apparently a final instar en route to a pupation site. Temporarily placed on nearby split Black Cottonwood log to photograph. Note yellow-rimmed blue false-eye with a blue mark separating false-eye from the more dorsal yellow mark.

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Contributed by C. Fred Zeillemaker on 26 September, 2015 - 1:35pm

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