Kingdom: Animalia
Division: Rhopalocera
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Papilionidae
Subfamily: Papilioninae
Tribe: Papilionini
Genus: Papilio
Species: androgeus
Sub-species: androgeus
Range: Colombia, Bolivia, Brasil (Matto grosso) y Venezuela. Small populations are registered in Florida (USA).
Identification: Wing upper surface is dark brown, almost black on the distal margin of hind wings and a little more clear on the forewings. Dorsal and ventral wings crossed by a bright yellow spot with two spots of the same color in the discal cell of fore wings.
The abdomen is yellow with a brown longitudinal line and the head and Toras are almost black.
The undersides of the wings, amrilla stain is less intense and wider. The margin of the forewing is brown and the margin of the hindwing has lines of blue and orange yellow spots.
The females are very different, with dark brown in full body, yellow spot more small in wings, accompanied by some blue dot and a red line flow.
Life history: Males patrol for receptive females. Eggs are laid singly; caterpillars resemble bird droppings. Chrysalids overwinter.
Wing span: 13.4 - 14 cm.
Caterpillar hosts: Leaves of trees in citrus (Rutaceae) family orange (Citrus sinensis) and Zanthoxylum elephantiasis.
