| Common Name |
|
Latin Name |
|
Food plant(s) |
|
Description |
| Apollo |
 |
Parnassius apollo |
|
Stonecrop and houseleek |
A |
Velvety black, short black hairs arising from
small warts, rounded orange-red spots along each side. Central
and southern Europe. |
| Small
Apollo |
|
Parnassius phoebus |
|
Yellow saxifrage and mountain houseleek |
A |
Similar to above but smaller (48mm) In Europe,
confined to the Alps. |
| Clouded
Apollo |
|
Parnassius mnemosyne |
|
Corydalis |
A |
Similar to above but spots triangular. Europe. |
| False
Apollo |
|
Archon apollinus |
|
Birthwort |
A |
Velvety black, two rows of roundish red spots
and a row of red spots on sides, sometimes spotted with white
or black. South-eastern Europe and eastern Mediterranean countries. |
| Southern
Festoon |
|
Zerynthia polyxen |
|
Birthwort |
A |
Pale brown or whitish patterned with brown and
spotted with black, two rows of prominent, backward-pointing,
pink or reddish, black-tipped spines. Locally in southern Europe. |
| Southern Swallowtail
|
|
Papilio alexanor |
|
Umbellifer plants |
A |
Green with transverse black stripes broken by
orange spots. Southern Europe. |
| Swallowtail |
|
Papilio machaon |
|
Milk parsley, fennel and wild carrot. |
|
Green with transverse black bands. Central band
of each segment broken by red spots. Confined to the fens of
Norfolk. |
| Scarce Swallowtail
|
|
Iphiclides podalirius |
|
Blackthorn, hawthorn and cherry |
A |
Plump, green with yellowish line down middle of
the back, oblique yellowish lines bearing small red or yellow
raised spots. Central and southern Europe. |