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List of Papilionidae in IUCN Red List Threat Status

This is a list of threatened Papilionidae sorted according to their current lUCN Red List threat status, listed taxonomically within each category. These assessments need to be constantly reappraised and new information that may affect the assessment is solicited from readers.

Please note that these assessments are an update on the assessments made in the 1985 Swallowtail Red Data Book (pictured above), using new categories defined by IUCN. However, no new assessments have been made since 1985, and these are therefore the same species that were assessed at that time.

The IUCN categories were revised when Red Data Books were phased out in the late 1980s and replaced by the IUCN Red List. The IUCN Red List Categories and Criteria were extensively reviewed between 1997 and 1999. The revised Categories and Criteria (IUCN Red List Categories and Criteria: Version 3.1) were adopted by the IUCN Council in February 2000 and the revised system came into use in 2001. All assessments submitted to The IUCN Red List must now use this system.

CRITICALLY ENDANGERED (1 species)

Atrophaneura jophon                            Sri Lanka

 

ENDANGERED (9 species)

Graphium levassori                                 Comoro Is

Graphium sandawanum                        Mindanao (Philippines)

Ornithoptera meridionalis                    New Guinea (Papua New Guinea, Irian Jaya (Indonesia))

Ornithoptera alexandrae                      Papua New Guinea (PNG)

Ornithoptera croesus                              Moluccas (Indonesia)

Papilio homerus                                       Jamaica

Papilio moerneri                                      Bismarck Archipelago (Papua New Guinea)

Papilio aristophontes                             Comoro Is

Papilio chikae                                           Luzon (Philippines)

 

VULNERABLE (28 species)

Parnassius autocrator                            former USSR, Afghanistan

Parnassius apollo                                     Palaearctic

Bhutanitis ludlowi                                   Bhutan

Protographium marcellinus                   Jamaica

Eurytides iphitas                                      Brazil

Graphium epaminondas                         Andaman Is (India)

Graphium idaeoides                                Philippines

Graphium megaera                                 Palawan (Philippines)

Graphium meeki                                     Bougainville (PNG), Solomons

Graphium stresemanni                         Seram (Indonesia)

Graphium procles                                  Sabah (Malaysia)

Battus zetides                                         Hispaniola (Haiti, Dominican Rep.)

Parides ascanius                                     Brazil

Atrophaneura luchti                              Java (Indonesia)

Atrophaneura schadenbergi                Luzon, Babuyan (Philippines)

Atrophaneura atropos                           Palawan (Philippines)

Troides prattorum                                  Buru (Indonesia)

Troides dohertyi                                     Talaud Is, Sangihe (Indonesia)

Ornithoptera rothschildi                       Irian Jaya (Indonesia)

Ornithoptera aesacus                             Obi (Moluccas, Indonesia)

Papilio esperanza                                    Mexico

Papilio osmana                                        Leyte, Mindanao (Philippines)

Papilio carolinensis                                 Mindanao (Philippines)

Papilio phorbanta                                   Reunion

Papilio jordani                                         Sulawesi (Indonesia)

Papilio leucotaenia                                 Zaire, Uganda, Burundi, Rwanda

Papilio neumoegeni                                Sumba (Indonesia)

Papilio mangoura                                   Madagascar

 

NEAR THREATENED (13 species)

Baronia brevicornis                               Mexico

Luehdorfia japonica                              Japan

Teinopalpus imperialis                         Nepal, India, Bhutan, Burma, China

Graphium mendana                              Bougainville (PNG), Solomons

Parides burchellanus                             Brazil

Troides andromache                              Sabah (Malaysia), Sarawak (Malaysia)

Ornithoptera chimaera                         New Guinea (PNG, Irian Jaya (Indonesia))

Papilio sjoestedti                                   Tanzania

Papilio grosesmithi                               Madagascar

Papilio himeros                                     Brazil, Argentina?

Papilio maraho                                      Taiwan

Papilio benguetanus                             Luzon (Philippines)

Papilio manlius                                     Mauritius

 

DATA DEFICIENT (18 species)

Bhutanitis mansfieldi                          China

Luehdorfia chinensis                           China

Teinopalpus aureus                             China

Graphium aurivilliusi                         Zaire

Graphium weberi                                Cameroun Note: IUCN Red List records this species erroneously as Not Assessed

Parides hahneli                                   Brazil

Parides pizarro                                    Peru, Brazil

Parides steinbachi                               Bolivia

Parides coelus                                      French Guiana

Parides klagesi                                     Venezuela

Atrophaneura palu                              Sulawesi (Indonesia)

Ornithoptera tithonus                        Irian Jaya (Indonesia)

Papilio caiguanabus                            Cuba

Papilio aristor                                       Hispaniola (Haiti, Dominican Rep.)

Papilio garleppi                                    Bolivia, Brazil, French Guiana, Guyana, Peru, Surinam

Papilio maroni                                      French Guiana

Papilio antimachus                              West and Central Africa

Papilio morandavana                          Madagascar

 

LEAST CONCERN (6 species)

Bhutanitis thaidina                             China

Ornithoptera paradisea                      New Guinea (PNG, Irian Jaya (Indonesia))

Papilio toboroi                                      Bougainville (PNG), Solomons

Papilio hospiton                                   Corsica (France), Sardinia (Italy)

Papilio acheron                                     Sabah (Malaysia), Sarawak (Malaysia), Brunei

Papilio weymeri                                    Bismarck Archipelago (PNG)

 

ENDANGERED SUBSPECIES (not assessed in IUCN Red List) (3 subspecies)

Eurytides lysithous harrisianus         Brazil

Papilio aristodemus ponceanus         Florida (USA)

Papilio desmondi teita                         Kenya

 

 

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