Dragon Swallowtail

Sericinus montela

first update d. 5 october 2007

last update d. 31 may 2025

Dragon Swallowtail, Sericinus montela male. China. july 2006. Photographer: Tom Nygaard Kristensen Dragon Swallowtail, Sericinus montela male. China. July 2006. Photographer: Tom Nygaard Kristensen

Dragon Swallowtail, Sericinus montela male. China. July 2006. Photographer: Tom Nygaard Kristensen

Dragon Swallowtail, Sericinus montela (Gray, 1852).
The larvae of S. montela feed on Aristolochia contorta (Aristolochiaceae) in the wild, and on A. debilis and A. clematitis under lab conditions.
Range: China, North and South Korea (Ackery, 1975), Vladivostok, Amur, Ussuri (Tuzov et al., 1997). It has been recently introduced to Japan (Kumon, 2005.
Similar species from Europe: Southern festoon. Link to Tree of Life web project.

Tribe Luehdorfiini Grote, 1899;
Allancastria (Bryk, 1934). — 5 spp.
Sericinus (Westwood, 1851). — 1 sp.
Zerynthia (Ochsenheimer, 1816). — 3 spp.
Luehdorfia (Crüger, 1878). — 5 spp.
Bhutanitis (Atkinson, 1873). — 6 spp.

GBIF: Global Biodiversity Information Facility.
World distribution:
Dragon Swallowtail, Sericinus montela (Gray, 1852).

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Dragon Swallowtail, Sericinus montela (Gray, 1852).

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  Henrik S. Larsen; Butterflies from Hainan, China.

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