Papilio machaon Linnaeus, 1758

Common names

🇬🇧 Old World Swallowtail
🇫🇷 Machaon, Grand Porte-Queue

Taxonomy

Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Papilionidae
Subfamily: Papilioninae
Tribe: Papilionini
Genus: Papilio
Species: Papilio machaon

Presence

Present.

Conservation status

Red List (Metropolitan France): LC Least Concern
Red List (Europe): LC Least Concern

Photographs

img/papilio-machaon.webp — Papilio machaon

img/papilio-machaon-2.webp — Papilio machaon foraging on a flower of Helminthotheca echioides

Sources

van Swaay, C., Wynhoff, I., Verovnik, R., Wiemers, M., López Munguira, M., Maes, D., Sasic, M., Verstrael, T., Warren, M., & Settele, J. (2010). Papilio machaon (Europe assessment). The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species, 2010. https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/160213/5355943