Achillides, the peacock swallowtails,Books on Butterflies /home.hkls.orgAchillides Butterflies (Peacock Swallowtails) nhbs.com are a subgenus within the genus Papilio containing 29 species and over 100 subspecies distributed across the Indo-Australian Archipelago from East Russia, the Indian subcontinent and to Australia.
Species Papilio arcturus Westwood, 1842 – blue peacock Papilio arjuna Horsfield, 1828 Papilio bianor Cramer, – Chinese peacock Papilio blumei Boisduval, 1836 – green swallowtail Papilio buddha Westwood, 1872 – Malabar banded peacock Papilio chikae Igarashi, 1965 – Luzon peacock swallowtail Papilio crino Fabricius, 1793 – common banded peacock Papilio daedalus C. Felder & R. Felder, 1861 Papilio dehaanii C. Felder & R. Felder, 1864 Papilio dialis Leech, 1893 – southern Chinese peacock Papilio elephenor Doubleday, 1845 – yellow-crested spangle Papilio hermeli Nuyda, 1992 Papilio hoppo Matsumura, 1908 Papilio karna C. & R. Felder, 1864 Papilio krishna Moore, 1857 – Krishna peacock Papilio lorquinianus C. Felder & R. Felder, 1865 - sea green swallowtail Papilio maackii Ménétriés, 1859 Papilio montrouzieri Boisduval, 1859 Papilio neumoegeni Honrath, 1890 Papilio orsippus Godman & Salvin, 1888 Papilio palinurus Fabricius, 1787 Papilio paris Linnaeus, 1758 – Paris peacock Papilio peranthus Fabricius, 1787 Papilio pericles Wallace, 1865 Papilio polyctor Boisduval, 1836 Papilio ryukyuensis Fujioka, 1975 Papilio syfanius Oberthür, 1886 Papilio tamilana Moore, 1881 Papilio telegonus C. Felder & R. Felder, 1860 Papilio ulysses Linnaeus, 1758 - blue mountain butterfly
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