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SBBT Photography Competition Winners

Congratulations to all our winners whose images are shown below along with some details about the butterfly.

Battus belus (Cramer, 1777)

Mexico, Central America, Trinidad, Colombia, Venezuela, Guyana, Surinam, French Guiana, Ecuador, Peru, Brazil and Bolivia. Apparently not threatened, but is encountered as solitary individuals in humid forest and is rarely abundant (at least in Costa Rica). Five or six subspecies; B. b. chalceus is only known from the type collection. Common name: the Belus.

Papilio (Heraclides) androgeus  (Cramer, 1775)

Mexico, Central America, Cuba, Hispaniola, Trinidad, Tobago, St. Lucia and South America (except Chile and Uruguay). Generally common and not threatened. Tolerant of open areas and secondary growth. Three subspecies. Common names: the Androgeus, Androgeus Swallowtail, Queen Page.

 

Graphium (Graphium) macleayanum (Leach, 1814)

Australia including Tasmania (where it is one of the most southerly-occurring papilionids), and Lord Howe and Norfolk Is; and mainland New Guinea. Not threatened as a species. Four subspecies. Common name: Macleay’s Swallowtail or Swordtail.

Iphiclides podalirius (Linnaeus, 1758)

Europe (excluding the British Isles, Norway, Sweden and Finland, although stray migrants are known from the UK and Sweden), North Africa and the Middle East (possibly excluding Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Oman, United Arab Emirates and Qatar), Afghanistan, Pakistan, India and China. Generally common and not seriously threatened although it is protected by law in the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Germany, Hungary, Luxembourg and Poland, was included in the (former) U.S.S.R. Red Data Book, listed as Endangered-Rare and protected in Austria and Indeterminate throughout Europe. Six subspecies including I. p. feisthamelii Duponchel from Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Spain, Portugal and France, which is variously treated as a doubtfully good species or a subspecies of I. podalirius. Common names: Scarce Swallowtail, Sail Swallowtail, Pear-tree Swallowtail.

Papilio machaon (Linneaus, 1758)

Entire Palearctic region through to China and Japan (including Nepal, Bhutan and Taiwan) as far south as some oases in Saudi Arabia and Oman and the high mountains of Yemen; Pakistan, northern India, northern Burma, Canada and Alaska. Often common and not threatened as a species. Thirty-seven subspecies. P. (P.) m. saharae flies in Yemen and parts of the Sahara and has been listed as a full species due to larvae differing from machaon in other parts of the region. Protected by law in Austria, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, (subspecies gorganus) the U.K. (subspecies britannicus) and India (subspecies verityi). Listed as Vulnerable in South Korea, the (former) U.S.S.R. Red Data Book and the Austrian Red Data Book. Common names: Swallowtail, Old World Swallowtail, Common Yellow Swallowtail.

Zerynthia rumina (Linnaeus, 1758)

Southern France, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia. Often fairly common within its somewhat restricted range but has been listed as Vulnerable throughout Europe. Threatened to varying degrees in France (where it is more local than Z. polyxena and the distinctive form honoratii is protected by law), Spain and Italy. Five subspecies. Common name: Spanish Festoon.

Parnassius stubbendorfi (Menethes, 1849)

High attitude taiga in Eastern Russia, China (Xizang Zizhiqu (Tibet), Heilongjiang, Gansu, Sichuan (Szechwan) and Qinghai), Mongolia, North Korea, South Korea and Japan (Hokkaido). Twenty-five or more subspecies. Not known to be threatened and seemingly quite common. No common name.

Sericinus montela (Gray, 1843) (= telamon Donovan, 1798)

Eastern Russia (Primorskiy Kray), China (Heilongjiang, Jilin, Liaoning, Hebei, Shandong, Anhui, Jiangsu, Hubei, Hunan, Jiangxi and Gansu), North Korea and South Korea. Threatened by changes in flood plain vegetation in Russia where it is included in the (former) U.S.S.R. Red Data Book, category Rare. More information is required on this primitive and important zerynthiine. Eleven subspecies. Common name: Dragon Swallowtail.

Graphium (Pathysa) antiphates (Cramer,1775)

North-eastern and southern India, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Burma, south-eastern China (including Hainan (Guangdong prov.)), Thailand, Laos, Vietnam, Cambodia, Peninsular and Eastern Malaysia, Brunei and Indonesia (Sumatra, Mentawai Is, Nias, Bangka, Bali, Lesser Sunda Is (except Sumba), Sulawesi, Bunguran (Natuna Is) and Kalimantan). Not threatened as a species but the subspecies in Sri Lanka is apparently very rare. Twelve subspecies. Common name: Five-bar Swordtail.

Papilio (Princeps) nephelus (Boisduval, 1836)

Nepal, north-eastern India (including Assam and Sikkim), Bhutan (?), Burma, Thailand, Vietnam, Laos, southern China (including Hainan (Guangdong prov.), Taiwan, Cambodia, Eastern and Peninsular Malaysia, Brunei and Indonesia (Sumatra, Mentawai Is, Nias, Batu, Java and Kalimantan). Common and not threatened. Eleven subspecies including chaon Westwood. P. (P.) nubilus Staudinger from Sumatra and northern Borneo was a possible aberration of P. (P) nephelus, or a hybrid between P. (P. ) nephelus and P. (P. ) polytes. More information required. Common names: Yellow Helen, Black and White Helen, Banded Helen.

Note: Information is derived from Threatened Swallowtail Butterflies of the World by N.M. Collins and M.G. Morris (1985) IUCN, Gland & Cambridge vii +401 pp. +8 pls., which contains more detailed references. Readers are invited to submit updates and amendments.

 

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    20th July 2021

    Richard has bred butterflies for 55 years, starting in West Yorkshire and now in Watamu, Kenya. A zoologist trained at Oxford, for 30 years he has owned a butterfly farm supplying live exhibitions in USA and UK. His insight and knowledge of captive breeding will be key to the success of SBBT’s conservation projects.

    Richard Markham joins SBBT as Honorary Coordinator on the Natewa Swallowtail

    14th July 2021

    SBBT is delighted to welcome Richard as Honorary Coordinator for Natewa Swallowtail studies in Fiji, where he is closely involved with our project with NatureFiji Marequeti-Viti to conserve and breed Papilio natewa,  a very rare species discovered only in 2017. Richard is the Director of Kokomana Pte Ltd., a cocoa plantation and chocolate company based […]

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    30th June 2021

    On 12 June 2021 SBBT held a very successful online videoconference on “Saving Swallowtails”. Fourteen presentations highlighted the most advanced swallowtail conservation projects in the world, ranging from Florida, Jamaica, Brazil and Kenya to the UK, Italy, Singapore, Australia, PNG and Fiji. These presentations are now freely available to download from YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdB29sTt1KFJPc76X2PfEjg/playlists

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