Dragon swallowtail
Sericinus montela
The dragon swallowtail is a swallowtail butterfly from East Asia. It belongs to the same group as the Apollo butterflies of the mountains. It is so special that it is the only species in its whole genus.
Lives in
The Russian Far East, Korea, China and Japan
Can it hurt you?
Harmless
Harmless. It does not bite or sting.
What does it eat?
Like other swallowtails, the grown-ups sip nectar from flowers.
How fast is it?
A person walking about 5 km/h (3.1 mph)
A kid running fast about 13 km/h (8.1 mph)
Dragon swallowtail about 15 km/h (9.3 mph)
A grown-up on a bike about 25 km/h (16 mph)
cool stuff
Fun facts
1
Scientists have given it lots of different names over the years, so its name history is very tangled.
2
It has a spring family and a summer family, and the two can look a little different.
3
It is found in many forms in different parts of China, Korea and Russia.
you asked
Most asked questions about Dragon swallowtail
?Where does the dragon swallowtail live?
In East Asia: the Russian Far East, Korea, China and Japan.
?Is the dragon swallowtail dangerous?
No. It is a harmless butterfly.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Sericinus montela
- Named by
- Gray, 1853
- Group
- Butterflies
- Family
- Papilionidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Papilionidae
- Lives on
- Asia
Where the facts come from
- Sericinus (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0): what it looks like, where it lives, what it eats, sizes and fun facts, retold in simple words.
- Picture by J. Patrick Fischer. CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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