IUCN Red List Conservation Status: Growing Concern? For 60 years, Horniman’s Swallowtail (Papilio hornimani Distant, 1879) was regarded as a monotypic species endemic to various highland forests in what is now north-eastern Tanzania. In 1939 it was reported from the Chyulu Hills, thereby narrowly extending its known range into Kenya. More recently, following Jan Kielland’s […]
Featured species : False Apollo (Archon apollinus)
The False Apollo (Archon apollinus) is a stunning species, seen flying very early in the year from mid-March to mid-April in eastern Greece. This species of butterfly belongs to the Parnassinae subfamily of Swallowtails.
Featured species : African Giant Swallowtail (Papilio antimachus)
The African Giant Swallowtail (Papilio antimachus), with a wingspan between 18 and 23 centimeters, is the largest butterfly in Africa and among the largest butterflies in the world. It is an exceedingly beautiful butterfly with a relatively wide range in Africa’s west and central primary rain forests.
Butterflies declining at an alarming rate across United States
A recently conducted assessment of butterfly trends across the contiguous United States from 2000 to 2020 found declines at every scale: reductions in total numbers of butterflies, falling species richness, and large decreases in many individual species.
Schaus’ Swallowtail benefits from hurricanes
A recent paper has highlighted that the population size of the federally endangered Schaus’ Swallowtail (Heraclides ponceana) was positively influenced by something unexpected — hurricanes.
