Papilio machaon

Orel region

Papilio machaon orientis, caterpillar
Mongolia, Hubsugul, July 2010

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Voronezh Region.
Near the village of Orlov

In one book about insects, they write about the swallowtail: "The flight of this butterfly can be compared to the proud soaring of an eagle. The swallowtail does not seem to be in a hurry, showing off all the splendor of its black and yellow wings... " etc. Anyone who tried to photograph the swallowtail in the summer is unlikely to agree with this. "Proud soaring" is more about podaliriya. The swallowtail rushes swiftly and loops from flower to flower, never stopping anywhere for a long time and leaving no chance to bring the camera lens closer for a high-quality picture.

Calmly photographed these butterflies managed in April, when they just emerged from pupae in the pine part of the park behind the lake. It was still chilly in April, and the butterflies were basking in the spring sun on the paths.

There are few flowering plants in the park at this time, so large sailboats fed on the nectar of small yasnotka flowers. Swallowtails could not sit on the flower, it bent under the weight of butterflies, so they drank nectar on the fly, like hawkmoth.

Of course, the swallowtail does not have such a proboscis as the hawk moth, nor its "motor". At first, the butterfly tried to sit on the ash tree. The flower fell to the ground, and the swallowtail was left with nothing. Then the butterfly adapted. She only held the flower with her paws, without stopping working with her wings, and drank nectar. It was during this activity that I was photographed.

Leski, Nikolaev, Ukraine, April 23-27, 2011

please tell me, and how to find a swallowtail egg? Can I consider myself lucky?
I found it, and she put it down right in front of my face.

true, there was a current cell phone, so the photo is not pts
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by the way, they love this plant very much, I have seen such fat caterpillars, as if they will have hawk moth
true, I don't know what kind of plant, the leaves are like dill, and the flowers.. no flowers yet

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Can I consider myself lucky?

You can of course. But I would say that this is more of an observation.

"evolution"
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A swallowtail caterpillar has just emerged from its egg, photographed in Meshchera, Klepikovsky district, Ryazan Region on August 02, 2009.

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The caterpillar eats the egg shell, the picture was taken in Meshchera, Klepikovsky district of the Ryazan region on August 02, 2009.

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"evolution"

The first three ages are missing. Only the fourth and fifth tracks are shown in the image

Moscow region, Ramenskiy district, near the village of Khripan (a clearing under a power line). This summer there was just a huge number of swallowtails, on some days it was possible to observe the flight of more than 20 pieces within an hour. Such an abundance of butterflies allowed me to take about 200 shots: on vacation, during feeding and mating, as well as butterfly caterpillars.

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The caterpillar is about 6 hours old, the picture was taken in Meshchera, Klepikovsky district of the Ryazan region on August 02, 2009.

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Moscow region, Ramenskiy district, near the village of Khripan (a clearing under a power line). This summer there was just a huge number of swallowtails, on some days it was possible to observe the flight of more than 20 pieces within an hour. Such an abundance of butterflies allowed me to take about 200 shots: on vacation, during feeding and mating, as well as butterfly caterpillars.

strange..in the first photo, the butterfly has no red spots on its hind wings..why would that be?

strange..in the first photo, the butterfly has no red spots on its hind wings..why would that be?

So the rarest variety Can be confirmed by specialists?

This post was edited by gumenuk - 17.10.2011 21: 23

strange..in the first photo, the butterfly has no red spots on its hind wings..why would that be?

Everything is there. Just in its natural form, these edges of the hind wings with orange spots are bent to the belly of the butterfly. Take a good look at the photo!

Miracles, here is one photographer posted a photo in the macro club-where the swallowtail caterpillar eats... burdock.... wonders....

http://macroclub.ru/gallery/showphoto.php/...o/76617/cat/507

In general, it is also full of umbrella plants with burdock-like leaves, you never know what kind of plant people call "burdock"

Miracles, here is one photographer posted a photo in the macro club-where the swallowtail caterpillar eats... burdock.... wonders....
http://macroclub.ru/gallery/showphoto.php/...o/76617/cat/507

In general, it is also full of umbrella plants with burdock-like leaves, you never know what kind of plant people call "burdock"

Hierophis is right - it's hogweed.

Hierophis is right - it's hogweed.

It was me.

..it is immediately clear that you guys were brought up in the summer not in the village-I used such leaves of "hogweed" there "where the king went on foot" - a hundred pounds is burdock.

..it is immediately clear that you guys were brought up in the summer not in the village-I used such leaves of "hogweed" there "where the king went on foot" - a hundred pounds is burdock.

Your insight and knowledge are amazing.
Pay attention to the characteristic burgundy trichoma hairs along the vein to which the caterpillar's head is turned. This is a sufficient condition.
Or do you need more necessary ones?

You can laugh, entomologist friends,but probably only you can understand my feelings! Today, for the first time in 22 years, I saw a Swallowtail live in our city of Stary Oskol, Belgorod region,it was a miracle just for me!!
I didn't expect this and didn't believe that we have such a miracle)I was in shock for about 5 minutes,he so smoothly flew past me and went high into the treetops. I will now hunt for him and his caterpillars)

After all, I now have several swallowtails of my native region. In the summer of 2011 in our Belgorod region (Art.Oskol, Gubkin) was a mass production of swallowtails. Before that, I met one individual in 2008. They flew around the city as if there was nothing to do, but they were fast and agile. Then I was without a net, then I covered the flower bed with a net, and he either left through the bottom. Then, while digging up potatoes in Gubkin, 3 pieces also dodged. I was already in a panic. But after examining the dill in the garden I found about 10 caterpillars and only then brought out the perfect swallowtails)

All January I had May at home, Altai swallowtails were bred...

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Subspecies

* P. m. aliaska Scudder, 1869. Chukotka-Alaska
* P. m. archias Fruhstorfer, 1907. South of Ts.
P. M. baijangensis Huang & Murayama, China, 1992. Ketmen.
* P. m. bairdii Edwards, 1866. Nevada-Arizona-California
* P. M. brucei Edwards, 1893. Colorado
* P. m. centralis Staudinger, 1886. Turan-Alai-Z.Pamir
* P. m. chinensis Verity, 1905. Sichuan
* P. m. gorganus Fruhstorfer, 1922.Europe-Caucasus-Ural
* P. m. hudsonianus Clark, 1932. Canada
* P. m. kamtschadalus Alphéraky, 1897. Kamchatka Peninsula
* P. m. kiyonobu Morita, 1997. Tibet
* P. M. kunkalaschani Eller, 1939.Sichuan
* P. m. ladakensis Moore, 1884.Pamir
* P. m. lapponica Verity, 1911. C. Europe
* P. m. machaon Linnaeus, 1758. C.Europe
* P. m. mauretanica Verity, 1905. C. Africa
* P. m. montanus Alphéraky, 1897. NW. China
* P. m. muetingi Seyer, 1976. Yemen
* P. m. oregonius Edwards, 1876.Canada-Idoho
* P. m. oreinus Sheljuzhko, 1919. Tien Shan
* P. m. orientis Verity, 1911. Altai-Amur
Region * P. m. sachalinensis Matsumura, 1911.Sakhalin
* P. M. schapiroi Seyer, 1976.Ussuri-V. China-Korea
* P. m. septentrionalis Verity, 1911. Kuril Islands
* P. m. sikkimensis Moore, 1884.Tibet
* P. M. suroia Tytler, 1939. p.India
* P. m. sylvinus, Hemming. C.China
* P. m. syriacus Verity, 1908. Transcaucasia-Turkey-Palestine
* P. M. taliensis Eller, 1939. p.Yunnan
* P. m. ussuriensis Sheljuzhko, 1910.Priamurye - S. and Ts.Ussuri region
* P. m. verityi Fruhstorfer, 1907.China-Burma-Vietnam
* P. M. weidenhofferi Seyer, 1976. Kopet-Dagh-Iran-Afghanistan-Pakistan

Released on March 10.

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I read the topic and remembered that there are swallowtail pupae in the refrigerator under the window.Next week will be warmer weather...it is necessary to transfer to a real refrigerator, hold out until spring and release in the country.Where they were collected.In the north of Moscow region.
And Apollo eggs in the country house in the basement.The main thing is that the sediment would rise on time!I'll try to feed them.

I have this morning a male machaon hatched from a caterpillar collected in the fall in the mountains. Moscow.

 
And Apollo eggs in the country house in the basement.The main thing is that the sediment would rise on time!

And where can I get Apollo eggs? According to reference books, Apollo is rare, but it is found in Meshchera, cleanings grow-caustic, prominent (and on my site), but I haven't had to meet a butterfly or caterpillars yet.

This post was edited by praersh - 01.04.2012 11: 57

Catch a female and milk her, but don't poke around in the soil. Apollo near you is the largest in the population of Kovrov-Sudogodsky districts.

That's right!
Read the forum carefully and see Apollo, take a picture and catch a couple of copies without any problems.Yes, and Meshchera is a stretchable concept...

Dear forumchane, aren't you surprised by such an immensely large number of described subspecies of the swallowtail? Most of them seem to be "fake". I can give you an example that is perfectly described by Kreutzberg in his work:
Kreutzberg A.V.-A., Danov R. A. Sailfish fauna (Lepidoptera, Papilionidae) Rastitel'nost ' i zhivotnyj mir Zapadnogo Kopetdag [Vegetation and animal world of Western Kopetdag]. Ashgabat: "Ylym" Publ., 1985, pp. 249-261.
In Turkmenistan, as in other places of Central Asia, all individuals of the second generation (not all descendants of the first generation come out in the summer) belong to the form centralis Stgr. However, the individuals of the first (spring) generation are practically indistinguishable from the individuals common in the middle zone; the subspecies weidenhofferi Seyer was described from them from the Kopetdag Mountains. I myself have repeatedly caught spring weidenhofferi Seyer and then summer centralis Stgr in the same places of the Central Kopetdag. Are these subspecies?

Dear forumchane, aren't you surprised by such an immensely large number of described subspecies of the swallowtail? Most of them seem to be "fake". I can give you an example that is perfectly described by Kreutzberg in his work:
Kreutzberg A.V.-A., Danov R. A. Sailfish fauna (Lepidoptera, Papilionidae) Rastitel'nost ' i zhivotnyj mir Zapadnogo Kopetdag [Vegetation and animal world of Western Kopetdag]. Ashgabat: "Ylym" Publ., 1985, pp. 249-261.
In Turkmenistan, as in other places of Central Asia, all individuals of the second generation (not all descendants of the first generation come out in the summer) belong to the form centralis Stgr. However, the individuals of the first (spring) generation are practically indistinguishable from the individuals common in the middle zone; the subspecies weidenhofferi Seyer was described from them from the Kopetdag Mountains. I myself have repeatedly caught spring weidenhofferi Seyer and then summer centralis Stgr in the same places of the Central Kopetdag. Are these subspecies?

I agree 100%. Spring swallowtails from Kyrgyzstan also do not differ from Turkmen ones.

Subspecies

* P. m. aliaska Scudder, 1869. Chukotka-Alaska
* P. m. archias Fruhstorfer, 1907. South of Ts.
P. M. baijangensis Huang & Murayama, China, 1992. Ketmen.
* P. m. bairdii Edwards, 1866. Nevada-Arizona-California
* P. M. brucei Edwards, 1893. Colorado
* P. m. centralis Staudinger, 1886. Turan-Alai-Z.Pamir
* P. m. chinensis Verity, 1905. Sichuan
* P. m. gorganus Fruhstorfer, 1922.Europe-Caucasus-Ural
* P. m. hudsonianus Clark, 1932. Canada
* P. m. kamtschadalus Alphéraky, 1897. Kamchatka Peninsula
* P. m. kiyonobu Morita, 1997. Tibet
* P. M. kunkalaschani Eller, 1939.Sichuan
* P. m. ladakensis Moore, 1884.Pamir
* P. m. lapponica Verity, 1911. C. Europe
* P. m. machaon Linnaeus, 1758. C.Europe
* P. m. mauretanica Verity, 1905. C. Africa
* P. m. montanus Alphéraky, 1897. NW. China
* P. m. muetingi Seyer, 1976. Yemen
* P. m. oregonius Edwards, 1876.Canada-Idoho
* P. m. oreinus Sheljuzhko, 1919. Tien Shan
* P. m. orientis Verity, 1911. Altai-Amur
Region * P. m. sachalinensis Matsumura, 1911.Sakhalin
* P. M. schapiroi Seyer, 1976.Ussuri-V. China-Korea
* P. m. septentrionalis Verity, 1911. Kuril Islands
* P. m. sikkimensis Moore, 1884.Tibet
* P. M. suroia Tytler, 1939. p.India
* P. m. sylvinus, Hemming. C.China
* P. m. syriacus Verity, 1908. Transcaucasia-Turkey-Palestine
* P. M. taliensis Eller, 1939. p.Yunnan
* P. m. ussuriensis Sheljuzhko, 1910.Priamurye - S. and Ts.Ussuri region
* P. m. verityi Fruhstorfer, 1907.China-Burma-Vietnam
* P. M. weidenhofferi Seyer, 1976. Kopet-Dagh-Iran-Afghanistan-Pakistan

Subspecies

* P. m. aliaska Scudder, 1869. Chukotka-Alaska Eichberger's view
* P. m. kamtschadalus Alphéraky, 1897. Kamchatka Peninsula Eichberger's view

* P. M. machaon Linnaeus, 1758.Europa
= P. m. gorganus Fruhstorfer, 1922.Europe-Caucasus-Ural
= P. m. syriacus Verity, 1908. Transcaucasia-Turkey-Palestine
= P. M. lapponica Verity, 1911. p. Europe

* P. m. chinensis Verity, 1905. Sichuan
= P. m. archias Fruhstorfer, 1907. South of Ts.China
= P. m. kunkalaschani Eller, 1939.Sichuan
= P. m. taliensis Eller, 1939. p.Yunnan
= P. m. sylvinus, Hemming. Ts.China
= P. m. verityi Fruhstorfer, 1907.China-Burma-Vietnam

* P. m. sikkimensis Moore, 1884.Tibet
= P. m. kiyonobu Morita, 1997. Tibet
= P. m. suroia Tytler, 1939. p.India

* P. M. oregonius Edwards, 1876.Canada-Idoho
= P. m. hudsonianus Clark, 1932. Canada

* P. m. bairdii Edwards, 1866. Nevada-Arizona-California
= P. m. brucei Edwards, 1893. Colorado


* P. m. centralis Staudinger, 1886. Turan-Alai-Z.Pamir deserts of Central Asia
= P. m. weidenhofferi Seyer, 1976. Kopet-Dagh-Iran-Afghanistan-Pakistan

* P. M. ladakensis Moore, 1884.Pamir mountains of Central Asia
= P. m. baijangensis Huang & Murayama, 1992. Ketmen.
= P. m. oreinus Sheljuzhko, 1919. Tien Shan



* P. m. mauretanica Verity, 1905. S. Africa

* P. m. muetingi Seyer, 1976. Yemen

* P. m. montanus Alphéraky, 1897. СЗ.Китай
= P. m. orientis Verity, 1911. Altai-Amur
Region = P. m. sachalinensis Matsumura, 1911.Sakhalin
= P. M. schapiroi Seyer, 1976.Ussuri-V. China-Korea
= P. m. septentrionalis Verity, 1911. Kuril Islands
= P. m. ussuriensis Sheljuzhko, 1910.Priamurye - S. and Ts.Ussuriysk kray

I do not know how true this is, but the author of the subspecies P. m. syriacus is considered to be Eller. “Papilio machaon syriacus” Eller, K. 1936 (Die Rassen von Papilio machaon L. – Abh. bayer. Akad. Wiss., N.F., 36: 61, 87). Type locality: Lebanon. Standard material: in ZSSM. Hesselbart argues for this by referring to an article in the code.

I do not know how true this is, but the author of the subspecies P. m. syriacus is considered to be Eller. “Papilio machaon syriacus” Eller, K. 1936 (Die Rassen von Papilio machaon L. – Abh. bayer. Akad. Wiss., N.F., 36: 61, 87). Type locality: Lebanon. Standard material: in ZSSM. Hesselbart's argument is based on a reference to an article in the code.

Very likely, if Verity, in his own way, had fixed the name as a quadrinomain. Then, according to the Code, the first person to apply the name in a trinomain or binomain, or in any other way to change the status of a taxon from infraspecific to subspecific or specific, receives its authorship.

Mordovia, 2006 Photo by A. B. Ruchin



Mordovia, 2011. My photo. Unfortunately, it was not possible to photograph it from above, only this photo was successful.

From the Amur region.

Spring form:



Summer School:



Adult caterpillar:



Well, to the heap...

P. xuthus:





His young caterpillar on dictamnus:



And P. maackii, female. The hand did not rise to catch:

Spring uniform, Sevastopol, 03.05.2010, wingspan about 50 mm

please tell me how to distinguish a female swallowtail from a male

I have pupated a swallowtail caterpillar what to do