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Chinese Peacock Swallowtail

Papilio bianor

4,771 observations in the source records

Wildlife study photograph from iNaturalist.
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What the records say

Easily confused with

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Where it is recorded

Records by month in China.January 5, February 11, March 98, April 198, May 123, June 186, July 273, August 209, September 183, October 132, November 39, December 5.
China1,462
Hong Kong Special Administrative Region283
Taiwan196
Taiwan Province183
Jiangsu Province163
Zhejiang Province145
Guangzhou Province87
Sichuan Province81
Hubei Province78
Yunnan Province72

Counts show where people looked, not only where it lives.

Traits

Physical

  • MetamorphosisUndergoes dramatic body transformation during developmentFrom its classification
  • ExoskeletonHas a hard external skeletonFrom its classification

Group and habits

  • Animal pollinatorDescends from an animal lineage whose members commonly pollinate flowers.Inferred from its group

Classification

KingdomAnimals · Animalia
PhylumArthropods · Arthropoda
ClassInsects · Insecta
OrderButterflies and Moths · Lepidoptera
FamilySwallowtails and Parnassians · Papilionidae
GenusCommon Swallowtails · Papilio

Sources

Remember the name next time.

Practise Chinese Peacock Swallowtail with real photos from different observers. Say the name out loud, and it comes back just before you would forget it.