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Male: 76 - 82mm
Female: 80 - 86mm |
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Scarce Swallowtail
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Iphiclides podalirius
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Linnaeus, 1758 |
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Ref: 1540 |
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| Superfamily: | Papilionoidea |
| Family: | Papilionidae |
| Subfamily: | Papilioninae |
| Genus: | Iphiclides |
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| Species: | podalirius |
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This species is believed to be an extremely rare natural immigrant to our shores. However, the dozen or so sightings could be the result of immature stages being accidentally imported, or releases of captive-bred stock. This species was figured as a British species as early as 1710. The first authoritative reports of a capture were from Clapham Park Wood, Bedfordshire, in 1803 and from Netley, Shropshire in 1822.
This species is a rare migrant to the British Isles.
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The primary larval foodplants are Blackthorn (Prunus spinosa), Bullace (Prunus domestica), Cherry (Cerasus spp.) and Wild Plum (Prunus domestica).
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No similar species found.
No sites found.
This species is a rare migrant and no conservation action is relevant.
The following links provide additional information on this butterfly.
The species description provided here has been derived from the author's own observations and the information contained in the following works:
- A Natural History of British Butterflies, by F.W.Frohawk.
- British and Irish Butterflies, by Adrian M. Riley
- South's British Butterflies, by T.G.Howarth (which is based extensively on the classic work, "The Butterflies of the British Isles", by Richard South).
- The Butterflies of Britain and Ireland, by Jeremy Thomas and Richard Lewington.
- The Millennium Atlas of Butterflies in Britain and Ireland, by Jim Asher, Martin Warren, Richard Fox, Paul Harding, Gail Jeffcoate, Stephen Jeffcoate.
- The Moths and Butterflies of Great Britain and Ireland Volume 7 (1) Hesperiidae to Nymphalidae (the Butterflies), by A. Maitland Emmet and John Heath (editors).
- The State of Butterflies in Britain and Ireland, Richard Fox, Jim Asher, Tom Brereton, David Roy and Martin Warren.
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