Alice Springs Desert Park
ASDP Butterflies & MothsBanksia Moth – Caterpillar Caper White Butterfly Chequered Swallowtail (Papilio demoleus ssp sthenelus) Day Flying Moth / Mistletoe Moth Heliotrope Moth (Utetheisa pulchelloides) Noctuinae (Caterpillar) Processionary Caterpillar
The Chequered Swallowtail (Papilio demoleus ssp. sthenelus) is the subspecies that occurs from the northern part of the Northern Territory down through the arid regions of Australia.
As seen here and like most swallowtail species, they usually feed from flowers while on the wing. They can often be seen at the edges of water sources on a hot day. They imbibe the water up through their proboscis, remove any water soluble nutrients in their stomach, then squirt out the remaining water from their rear ends.
- Scientific classification
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Arthropoda
- Subphylum: Hexapoda
- Class: Insecta
- Subclass: Pterygota
- Order: Lepidoptera
- Superfamily: Papilionoidea
- Family: Papilionidae
- Subfamily: Papilioninae
- Tribe: Papilionini
- Genus: Papilio
- Subgenus: Princeps
- Species: Papilio demoleus
- Subspecies: Papilio demoleus sthenelus
Footnote & References
- Chequered Swallowtail (Papilio demoleus ssp. sthenelus), ausemade, iNaturalistAU, https://inaturalist.ala.org.au/observations/189948744
ASDP Butterflies & MothsBanksia Moth – Caterpillar Caper White Butterfly Chequered Swallowtail (Papilio demoleus ssp sthenelus) Day Flying Moth / Mistletoe Moth Heliotrope Moth (Utetheisa pulchelloides) Noctuinae (Caterpillar) Processionary Caterpillar
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