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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 » Anise Swallowtail - Hodges#4167 (Papilio zelicaon) » Anise Swallowtail (Papilio zelicaon zelicaon)
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Papilio zelicaon - male
Copyright © 2007 Hartmut Wisch

Papilio zelicaon - Male
Off Mount Pinos Road, ~6800 ft., Kern County, California, USA
July 27, 2007
Nectaring in Eriastrum densifolium .

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Contributed by Hartmut Wisch on 28 July, 2007 - 11:48pm
Last updated 4 June, 2009 - 6:40pm

Moved
Moved from Anise Swallowtail.
… David J. Ferguson, 4 June, 2009 - 6:40pm login or register to post comments

not sure
which is supposed to be in that location; however, this looks suspiciously like P. polyxenes coloro to me. The increased amount of yellow on the abdomen and the shape of the wings approach that species. Ssp. coloro would often have more orange below than this one, but not always.
… David J. Ferguson, 8 August, 2008 - 3:30pm login or register to post comments

 
Thanks for your input, David -
I had considered coloro at the time, but that one is not listed for Mt. Pinos, though an uncommon resident farther northeast, in the Southern Sierra Nevada according to Ken Davenport (TILS )
… Hartmut Wisch, 8 August, 2008 - 6:52pm login or register to post comments

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