Achillides

Achillides, the peacock swallowtails, are a subgenus within the genus Papilio containing 29 species and over 100 subspecies distributed across the Indo-Australian Archipelago from East Russia, the Indian subcontinent and to Australia.

Species

• Papilio arcturus <small>Westwood, 1842</small> – blue peacock
• Papilio arjuna <small>Horsfield, 1828</small>
• Papilio bianor <small>Cramer, [1777]</small> – Chinese peacock
• Papilio blumei <small>Boisduval, 1836</small> – green swallowtail
• Papilio buddha <small>Westwood, 1872</small> – Malabar banded peacock
• Papilio chikae <small>Igarashi, 1965</small> – Luzon peacock swallowtail
• Papilio crino <small>Fabricius, 1793</small> – common banded peacock
• Papilio daedalus <small>C. Felder & R. Felder, 1861</small>
• Papilio dehaanii <small>C. Felder & R. Felder, 1864</small>
• Papilio dialis <small>Leech, 1893</small> – southern Chinese peacock
• Papilio elephenor <small>Doubleday, 1845</small> – yellow-crested spangle
• Papilio hermeli <small>Nuyda, 1992</small>
• Papilio hoppo <small>Matsumura, 1908</small>
• Papilio karna <small>C. & R. Felder, 1864</small>
• Papilio krishna <small>Moore, 1857</small> – Krishna peacock
• Papilio lorquinianus <small>C. Felder & R. Felder, 1865</small> - sea green swallowtail
• Papilio maackii <small>Ménétriés, 1859</small>
• Papilio montrouzieri <small>Boisduval, 1859</small>
• Papilio neumoegeni <small>Honrath, 1890</small>
• Papilio orsippus <small>Godman & Salvin, 1888</small>
• Papilio palinurus <small>Fabricius, 1787</small>
• Papilio paris <small>Linnaeus, 1758</small> – Paris peacock
• Papilio peranthus <small>Fabricius, 1787</small>
• Papilio pericles <small>Wallace, 1865</small>
• Papilio polyctor <small>Boisduval, 1836</small>
• Papilio ryukyuensis <small>Fujioka, 1975</small>
• Papilio syfanius <small>Oberthür, 1886</small>
• Papilio tamilana <small>Moore, 1881</small>
• Papilio telegonus <small>C. Felder & R. Felder, 1860</small>
• Papilio ulysses <small>Linnaeus, 1758</small> - blue mountain butterfly

References

• , 2000: New species, new subspecies, and new record of butterflies (Lepidoptera: Papilionidae) from China (II). Entomotaxonomia 22(4): 266-274.
• , 1993: A new subspecies of Achillides form Indonesia (Lepidoptera: Papilionidae). Futao 12: 17.
• , 1997: A new subspecies of Achillides from Yapen Is., Indonesia (Lepidoptera : Papilionidae). Futao 24: 25-27.
• , 1992: Zwei neue taxa der gattung Papilio Linnaeus, 1758 aus Indonesien. (Lepidoptera: Papilionidae). Entomologische Zeitschrift 102 (16): 289-304.
• , 2002: New species of butterflies (Lepidoptera) from China, II. Entomotaxonomia 2002 (4): 276-284.
• , 1998: Schmetterlinge der Erde, Butterflies of the world Part I (1), Papilionidae Papilionidae I: Papilio, Subgenus Achillides, Bhutanitis, Teinopalpus. Edited by Erich Bauer and Thomas Frankenbach. Keltern : Goecke & Evers; Canterbury : Hillside Books for Papilio doddsi Janet, 1896