Papilio Rutulus-Shell Beach-Pismo-Arroyo Grande

            Males patrol back and forth along roadsides and woodland rides in search of females, and in hot weather aggregate in groups to imbibe mineral-ised moisture from damp ground.  Both sexes visit a wide range of herbaceous and bushy plants for nectar.

Range: Western North America from British Columbia south to southern New Mexico and Baja California; east to western South Dakota and southeast Colorado. A rare stray to central Nebraska.

The Queen Alexander might be extinct. Although this species has been protected, the damage seems to have been done by land clearing projects which took away its natural habitat. The number of specimens in collections seems to be so small that collectors cannot be blamed for this extinction. There are probably less than ten collections in the United States that have over five hundred different species of Papilionidae.

Family Papilionidae (Swallowtails), Papilio family, contains about five hundred and fifty different species with perhaps a new species still being discovered every two or three years. Many species are sexually dimorphic in that the females do not look like the males. A common example of this is the Tiger Swallowtail of North America where the males are always yellow and black and the females can be either yellow and black or occasionally a blue color.

Taken on: November 15, 2015

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