#3034 · 🦋 butterflies & moths

Southern Festoon

🇳🇱 Zuidelijke pijpbloemvlinder ·Zerynthia polyxena

LCleast concern 🦋 Butterflies & moths 📍 in Europe, not in NL

10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences

1. © Tatyana Zarubo · CC BY-NC 4.0
2. © David Short · CC BY 4.0
3. © Tatyana Zarubo · CC BY-NC 4.0
4. © Tatyana Zarubo · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
5. © Andrea Battisti · CC BY-NC 4.0
6. Austria:© Petra Urbanek · CC BY-NC 4.0
7. Austria:© Petra Urbanek · CC BY-NC 4.0
8. Дюртюлинский р-н, Респ. Башкортостан, Россия:© Aleksandr Ebel · CC BY-NC 4.0
9. Hessen, DE:© ben_10 · CC BY-NC 4.0
10. Krems-Land, Österreich:© Andreas Binder · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

Zerynthia polyxena , the southern festoon , is a striking butterfly belonging to the family Papilionidae of butterflies.

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 6,010iNaturalist observations
threat LCleast concern

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.
6,010 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Scientifically named by Michael Denis in 1775 (251 years ago).