Orchard Swallowtail, Large Citrus Butterfly at Holt, ACT
Identification history
| Papilio aegeus | 19 Feb 2023 | owenh | ||
| Papilio aegeus | 19 Feb 2023 | CarbonAI | ||
| Papilio aegeus | 19 Feb 2023 | MatthewFrawley | ||
| Vanessa itea | 19 Feb 2023 | CarbonAI | ||
| Euploea corinna | 19 Feb 2023 | JimL |
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User's notes
Saw this beauty fly over the yard twice while doing yard work, so that was a good excuse to grab the camera!
It then flew past the back fence and cut back on our corner.
Not the best photos in the world, as it was seriously moving!
Dropped down as Common Crow to start proceedings, but visually doesn’t seem to fit 100% to other images.
Thought it was just black and white, until looking closely at the first images of the butterfly (flying right to left, with neighbourly Ute in background) - is that some red colouration in the tail?
This Butterfly was seriously chunky! I’ve never seen anything like it…
2 comments
owenh
wrote:
19 Feb 2023
Jim, as you have seen, these are large butterflies. Males have a wingspan of 102mm and females 108mm.
Location information
- Places Holt, ACT
Sighting information
- 1 Abundance
- 19 Feb 2023 02:09 PM Recorded on
- JimL Recorded by
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Collections
Insects Swallowtails (Papilionidae) Butterflies (Lepidoptera, Rhopalocera) JimL
Additional information
- 25mm to 50mm Animal size
- Alive / healthy Animal health
Species information
- Papilio aegeus Scientific name
- Orchard Swallowtail, Large Citrus Butterfly Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 850m Recorded at altitude
- 426 images trained Machine learning
- External link More information
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Synonyms
Princeps aegeus
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- More than one media file
- Verified by an expert moderator
- Nearby sighting(s) of same species
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