Achillides

Achillides
Papilio bianor
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Clade:	Pancrustacea
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Papilionidae
Genus:	Papilio
Subgenus:	Achillides Hübner, 1819

Achillides, the peacock swallowtails, 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, [1777] – 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

References

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• Chou, I.; F. Yuan & Y.-L. Wang, 2000: New species, new subspecies, and new record of butterflies (Lepidoptera: Papilionidae) from China (II). Entomotaxonomia 22(4): 266-274.
• Shimogori, Y., 1993: A new subspecies of Achillides form Indonesia (Lepidoptera: Papilionidae). Futao 12: 17.
• Shimogori, Y., 1997: A new subspecies of Achillides from Yapen Is., Indonesia (Lepidoptera : Papilionidae). Futao 24: 25-27.
• Späth, M., 1992: Zwei neue taxa der gattung Papilio Linnaeus, 1758 aus Indonesien. (Lepidoptera: Papilionidae). Entomologische Zeitschrift 102 (16): 289-304.
• Wang, Z.-G. & Y. Niu, 2002: New species of butterflies (Lepidoptera) from China, II. Entomotaxonomia 2002 (4): 276-284.
• Bauer, E. & Frankenbach, T., 1998: Schmetterlinge der Erde, Butterflies of the world Part I (1), Papilionidae Papilionidae I: Papilio, Subgenus Achillides, Bhutanitis, Teinopalpus. Edited by Erich Bauer and Thomas Frankenbach. Keltern : Goecke & Evers; Canterbury : Hillside Books ISBN 978-3-931374-62-4 for Papilio doddsi Janet, 1896

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