#3159 · 🦋 butterflies & moths
Canadian Tiger Swallowtail
Papilio canadensis
🦋 Butterflies & moths 📍 outside Europe
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © Susan Elliott · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 2. © neilhusher · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 3. © Joanne Muis Redwood · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 4. © Amber Jones · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 5. © Bex Goreham · CC BY 4.0
- 6. © Rob Willson · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 7. © soo-bird · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 8. © Gail Taylor · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 9. © Suzanne Labbé · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 10. © Canda Dixon · CC BY-NC 4.0
what is it?
Papilio canadensis , the Canadian tiger swallowtail , is a species of butterfly in the family Papilionidae. It was once classified as a subspecies of Papilio glaucus .
base stats
Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).
fun facts
- No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
- 27,198 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by Karl Jordan in 1906 (120 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Canadian Tiger Swallowtail
- scientific name
- Papilio canadensis
- class
- Insecta
- order
- Lepidoptera
- family
- Papilionidae
- sightings in NL
- 0
- sightings worldwide
- 27,198
- GBIF records in NL
- 0
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1906 by Karl Jordan
relatives· Papilionidae
#2417 📷 10Old World Swallowtail
🇳🇱 Koninginnenpage
Papilio machaon
👀 668 in NL
#3070 📷 10Eastern Tiger Swallowtail
Papilio glaucus
🌍 174.2k seen
#3071 📷 10Black Swallowtail
Papilio polyxenes
LC 🌍 148.5k seen
#3077 📷 7Pipevine Swallowtail
Battus philenor
LC 🌍 99.8k seen
#3091 📷 8Spicebush Swallowtail
Papilio troilus
🌍 67.9k seen
#3112 📷 10Eastern Giant Swallowtail
Heraclides cresphontes
LC 🌍 41.6k seen
#2977 📷 10Scarce Swallowtail
🇳🇱 Koningspage
Iphiclides podalirius
LC 🌍 40.4k seen
#3123 📷 8Common Mormon Swallowtail
Papilio polytes
🌍 36.2k seen
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 57463, Wikidata Q1346362, GBIF 1937739, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.