Iphiclides feishtamelii

Iphiclides feisthamelii

''Iphiclides feisthamelii'', the southern scarce swallowtail or southern swallowtail, is a butterfly found in Italy, Spain, Portugal, Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia.
Iphiclides feisthamelii as the summer begins, a beautiful female Iphiclides feisthamelii, passes by for a quick snack in my backyard Iphiclides feisthamelii,arthropoda,biodiversity,insects,lepidoptera,papilionidae,papilionoidea,rhopalocera,summer

Appearance

The larva feeds on ''Prunus amygdalus'', ''P. persica'', ''P. insitia'', ''P. longpipes'', ''Pyrus communis'', ''Malus domesticus'' and ''Crataegus oxyacantha''.

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Taxonomy
KingdomAnimalia
DivisionArthropoda
ClassInsecta
OrderLepidoptera
FamilyPapilionidae
GenusIphiclides
SpeciesI. feisthamelii
Photographed in
Portugal