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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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Anise swallowtail for California in July - Papilio zelicaon - female
Copyright © 2006 Ron Hemberger

Anise swallowtail for California in July - Papilio zelicaon - Female
Peters Canyon, Orange, Orange County, California, USA
July 21, 2005
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Contributed by Ron Hemberger on 5 September, 2006 - 11:37pm
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

 
Interesting
Thanks for the move to subspecies and the new guide page.
… Ron Hemberger, 4 June, 2009 - 8:49pm login or register to post comments

 
I don't know if having subspecies on this one
is necessary, they really aren't very different, but since ssp. gothica was here, and not having the rest at the same ranking mucked up the data page, I figured I'd go ahead and make the ssp. page. Hope I got them all sorted correctly!
… David J. Ferguson, 5 June, 2009 - 6:18pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Giant Swallowtail.
… Ron Hemberger, 6 September, 2006 - 8:21pm login or register to post comments

Not Giant
Looks more like Anise (P. zelicaon).
… Cliff Bernzweig, 6 September, 2006 - 7:55pm login or register to post comments

 
Thanks for setting me straight
I IDed this a year ago before I had any idea of what I was doing. Still, I should have had more sense than to post without looking closely. The Giants are rare here, and I thought the yellow body was a distinguishing mark. Guess I was too eager.

(BTW, there are four swallowtails in this county: Giant, Anise, Western Tiger, and Pale.)
… Ron Hemberger, 6 September, 2006 - 8:24pm login or register to post comments

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