Iberian scarce swallowtail
Iphiclides feisthamelii
The Iberian scarce swallowtail is a big, pale swallowtail butterfly with long tails on its back wings. It lives in sunny southern Europe and North Africa. It looks so much like its cousin, the scarce swallowtail, that some scientists think they are the same kind.
Lives in
Spain, Portugal, southern France, Italy, Slovenia, Serbia and North Africa, in orchards and sunny places
Can it hurt you?
Harmless
Harmless. It cannot bite or sting.
What does it eat?
Its caterpillar eats the leaves of fruit trees like almond, peach, plum, pear and apple, and also hawthorn.
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)
Iberian scarce 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
Its caterpillars like to live on almond and peach trees.
2
Some scientists think it is just a kind of the scarce swallowtail.
3
It lives on both sides of the Mediterranean Sea, in Europe and in Africa.
you asked
Most asked questions about Iberian scarce swallowtail
?What does the Iberian scarce swallowtail caterpillar eat?
Leaves of almond, peach, plum, pear, apple and hawthorn.
?Where does the Iberian scarce swallowtail live?
In southern Europe, mainly Spain and Portugal, and in North Africa.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Iphiclides feisthamelii
- Group
- Butterflies
- Family
- Papilionidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Papilionidae
- Lives on
- Europe, Africa
- Also known as
- Southern scarce swallowtail, Southern swallowtail
Where the facts come from
- Iphiclides feisthamelii (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 www.invertebradosdehuesca.com. CC BY 3.0 es, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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