page_title: List of butterflies of Australia
section_title: Papilioninae
hierarchical_section_title: List of butterflies of Australia / Papilionidae: swallowtails / Papilioninae
caption_attribution_description: Four-barred Swordtail (Protographium leosthenes)
context_page_description: Australia has more than 400 species of butterfly, the majority of which are continental species, and more than a dozen endemic species from remote islands administered by various Australian territorial governments. The largest butterflies in the world are endemic to the Australasian realm. They are the birdwings—Ornithoptera and other genera—of the tribe Troidini of the swallowtail butterfly family, Papilionidae.
context_section_description: subfamily: Papilioninae
  tribe: Leptocircini (formerly Graphiini)
  genus: Protographium
  Four-barred swordtail, Protographium leosthenes (Doubleday, 1846) — pictured
  P. l. leosthenes (Doubleday, 1846)
  P. l. geimbia (Tindale, 1927)
  genus: Graphium (swordtails)
  Five-barred or chain swordtail, Graphium aristeus (Stoll, 1780)
  Macleay's swordtail, Graphium macleayanus (Leach, 1814)
  G. m. macleayanus (Leach, 1814)
  G. m. moggana (Couchman, 1965)
  Blue triangle, Graphium sarpedon (Linnaeus, 1758) — pictured
  Pale triangle, Graphium eurypylus (Linnaeus, 1758)
  G. e. lycaon (C. & R. Felder, 1865)
  G. e. nyctimus (Waterhouse & Lyell, 1914)
  G. e. lycanoides (Rothschild, 1895)
  Green triangle, Graphium macfarlanei (Butler, 1877)
  Green-spotted triangle, Graphium agamemnon (Linnaeus, 1758)
  tribe: Papilionini (fluted swallowtails)
  genus: Papilio (Linnaeus, 1758)
  Dainty swallowtail, Papilio anactus (W. S. Macleay, 1826)
  Orchard swallowtail, Papilio aegeus (Donovan, 1805) — pictured
  P. a. aegeus (Donovan, 1805)
  P. a. ormenus (Guérin-Méneville, 1830)
  Ambrax swallowtail, Papilio ambrax (Boisduval, 1832)
  Fuscus swallowtail, Papilio fuscus (Goeze, 1779)
  P. f. canopus (Westwood, 1842)
  P. f. capaneus (Westwood, 1843)
  P. f. indicatus (Butler, 1876)
  Ulysses swallowtail, Papilio ulysses (Linnaeus, 1758) — pictured
  Chequered swallowtail, Papilio demoleus (Linnaeus, 1758)
  *Christmas swallowtail, Papilio memnon (Linnaeus, 1758) [*native to Christmas Island]
  *Norfolk swallowtail, Papilio amynthor (Boisduval, 1859) [*native to Norfolk Island]
  tribe: Troidini (Aristolochia-eating swallowtails)
  genus: Cressida
  Clearwing swallowtail, Cressida cressida (Fabricius, 1775)
  C. c. cressida (Fabricius, 1775)
  genus: Ornithoptera (birdwings)
  Richmond birdwing, Ornithoptera richmondia (Gray, 1853)
  Cairns birdwing, Ornithoptera euphorion (Gray, 1853) — pictured
  New Guinea or common green birdwing, Ornithoptera priamus (Linnaeus, 1758)
  O. p. poseidon (Doubleday, 1847)
  O. p. pronomus (Gray, 1853)
  O. p. macalpinei (Moulds, 1974)
  genus: Pachliopta
  Red-bodied swallowtail, Pachliopta polydorus (Linnaeus, 1763)
caption: Four-barred swordtail
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