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LEPIDOPTERA

Iphiclides podalirius
Iphiclides podalirius podalirius (Linnaeus, 1758)

· TYPE LOCALITY."Livorno, Toskania [Italy].
· RANGE. From N. Africa across Middle, S. and E. Europe to Asia Minor and the Middle East, and across Kazakhstan to the Altai, SW. Siberia and W. China.
· DISTRIBUTION AND VARIATION. The central (sporadically) and S. European part, the Caucasus Major and Minor, W. and N. Tlan-Shan, Dzhungarsky Alatau, Saul and Tarbagatai - the nominate subspecies; the Armenian Highland, Talysh, Kopet- Dagh - ssp. persica. Verity, 1911. In some years, the distribution reaches the Moscow Region.
· HABITATS AND BIOLOGY. Low-mountain forests (up to 1,900 m a.s.l.), river valleys, bushy gorges and ravines, forest edges. Flight periods: May-June and July-September in two generations; in northern areas, only one generation is known annually. Host plants (Kreuzberg, 1984; etc.): various arboreal Rosaceae, e.g. Prunus spinosa, P. cerasifera, Amygdalus, Cerasus, Sorbus spp., etc. Pupa hibernating.

Photo and text: Guide to the BUTTERFLIES OF RUSSIA and adjacent territories Volume 1. PENSOFT, Sofia - Moscow. 1997