page_title: Papilio
section_title: Species
hierarchical_section_title: Papilio / Species
caption_attribution_description: English: Green-banded swallowtail (Papilio phorcas ruscoei), Kakamega Forest, Kenya
context_page_description: Papilio is a genus in the swallowtail butterfly family, Papilionidae, as well as the only representative of the tribe Papilionini. The word papilio is Latin for butterfly.
  It includes the common yellow swallowtail, which is widespread in the Northern Hemisphere and the type species of the genus, as well as a number of other well-known North American species such as the western tiger swallowtail. Familiar species elsewhere in the world include the Mormons in Asia, the orchard and Ulysses swallowtails in Australia and the citrus swallowtail of Africa.
  Older classifications of the swallowtails tended to use many rather small genera. More recent classifications have been more conservative, and as a result a number of former genera are now absorbed within Papilio. The genus as recognized by modern systems has about 200 members. The genus Chilasa is regarded as a subgenus of Papilio by some workers, as are the baggy-tailed swallowtails, although the latter taxon is usually considered a subgenus of Chilasa.
  Many of the larvae resemble bird droppings during a development stage. Adults are edible to birds and some species are mimics.
context_section_description: Listed alphabetically within groups.
  subgenus: Papilio Linnaeus, 1758
  species group: machaon
  Papilio alexanor Esper, 1800 – southern swallowtail
  Papilio brevicauda Saunders, 1869 – short-tailed swallowtail
  Papilio hospiton Géné, 1839 – Corsican swallowtail
  Papilio indra Reakirt, 1866 – Indra swallowtail, short-tailed black swallowtail, or cliff swallowtail
  Papilio joanae J. Heitzman, 1973 – Ozark swallowtail
  Papilio machaon Linnaeus, 1758 – Old World swallowtail, common yellow swallowtail, or artemisia swallowtail
  Papilio polyxenes Fabricius, 1775 – black swallowtail, eastern black swallowtail, or American swallowtail
  Papilio saharae Oberthür, 1879 – Sahara swallowtail
  Papilio zelicaon Lucas, 1852 – anise swallowtail or western swallowtail
  subgenus: Princeps Hübner, [1807]
  species group: antimachus
  Papilio antimachus Drury, 1782 – Antimachus swallowtail or giant African swallowtail
  species group: zalmoxis
  Papilio zalmoxis Hewitson, 1864 – giant blue swallowtail
  species group: nireus
  Papilio aristophontes Oberthür, 1897
  Papilio charopus Westwood, 1843 – tailed green-banded swallowtail
  Papilio chrapkowskii Suffert, 1904 – broad green-banded swallowtail or Chrapkowski's green-banded swallowtail
  Papilio chrapkowskoides Storace, 1952 – broadly green-banded swallowtail
  Papilio desmondi van Someren, 1939 – Desmond's green-banded swallowtail
  Papilio hornimani Distant, 1879 – Horniman's green-banded swallowtail or Horniman's swallowtail
  Papilio interjectana Vane-Wright, 1995 – Van Someren's green-banded swallowtail
  Papilio nireus Linnaeus, 1758 – green-banded swallowtail, narrow-banded green swallowtail, or African blue-banded swallowtail
  Papilio sosia Rothschild & Jordan, 1903 – medium green-banded swallowtail
  Papilio thuraui Karsch, 1900
  Papilio ufipa Carcasson, 1961
  Papilio wilsoni Rothschild, 1926
  species group: cynorta
  Papilio arnoldiana Vane-Wright, 1995
  Papilio cynorta Fabricius, 1793 – mimetic swallowtail
  Papilio plagiatus Aurivillius, 1898 – mountain mimetic swallowtail
  species group: dardanus
  Papilio constantinus Ward, 1871 – Constantine's swallowtail
  Papilio dardanus Brown, 1776 – mocker swallowtail, flying handkerchief, or African swallowtail
  Papilio delalandei Godart, [1824]
  Papilio phorcas Cramer, [1775] – apple-green swallowtail or green banded swallowtail
  Papilio rex Oberthür, 1886 – regal swallowtail
  species group: zenobia
  Papilio cyproeofila Butler, 1868 – common white-banded swallowtail
  Papilio fernandus Fruhstorfer, 1903
  Papilio filaprae Suffert, 1904
  Papilio gallienus Distant, 1879 – narrow-banded swallowtail
  Papilio mechowi Dewitz, 1881
  Papilio mechowianus Dewitz, 1885
  Papilio nobicea Suffert, 1904 – Volta swallowtail
  Papilio zenobia Fabricius, 1775 – Zenobia swallowtail
  species group: demodocus
  Papilio demodocus Esper, 1799 – citrus swallowtail, citrus butterfly, orange dog, or Christmas butterfly
  Papilio demoleus Linnaeus, 1758 – (common) lime swallowtail or lime butterfly
  Papilio erithonioides Grose-Smith, 1891
  Papilio grosesmithi Rothschild, 1926
  Papilio morondavana Grose-Smith, 1891 – Madagascan emperor
  species group: echerioides
  Papilio echerioides Trimen, 1868 – white-banded swallowtail
  Papilio fuelleborni Karsch, 1900
  Papilio jacksoni Sharpe, 1891 – Jackson's swallowtail
  Papilio sjoestedti Aurivillius, 1908 – Kilimanjaro swallowtail
  species group: oribazus
  Papilio epiphorbas Boisduval, 1833
  Papilio nobilis Rogenhofer, 1891 – noble swallowtail
  Papilio oribazus Boisduval, 1836
  species group: hesperus
  Papilio euphranor Trimen, 1868 – forest swallowtail or bush kite
  Papilio hesperus Westwood, 1843 – emperor swallowtail
  Papilio horribilis Butler, 1874
  Papilio pelodurus Butler, 1896
  species group: menestheus
  Papilio lormieri Distant, 1874 – central emperor swallowtail
  Papilio menestheus Drury, 1773 – western emperor swallowtail
  Papilio ophidicephalus Oberthür, 1878 – emperor swallowtail
  species group: incertae sedis
  Papilio andronicus Ward, 1871
  Papilio chitondensis Bivar de Sousa & Fernandes, 1966
  Papilio leucotaenia Rothschild, 1908 – cream-banded swallowtail
  Papilio luzviae Schröder & Treadaway, 1991
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caption: Green-banded swallowtail (Papilio phorcas), Kenya
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