Scarce Swallowtail

Description:

Scarce Swallowtail have a wingspan of 60-90 mm making it one of the largest in Europe. The base color is creamy white or pale yellow, its got 6 tiger-stripes on each fore-wing and a large thick black band going along the rear end which the last tiger-stripe almost interacts with. The hind wing have two tiger-stripes, a orange dot on the lower inside and have four blue crescent markings, where the second marking from the inside have an elongation of the hind-wing that forms the tail. The tail is white at the end. The Scarce Swallowtail is getting rarer because of the removal of Blackthorn bushes(Prunus spinosa) and is protected by law in Czech Republic, Slovakia, Germany, Hungary, Luxembourg, Russia, Ukraine and Poland. Regardless of some authorities referring it to be vulnerable, it is not listed in IUCNs Redlist of threatened species. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prunus_spi..., https://www.iucnredlist.org/search?query...

Habitat:

Urban area, grassland, farmland.