Guardian Nature School Team Contact Blog Project Noah Facebook Project Noah Twitter
Project Noah

A worldwide community photographing and learning about wildlife

Join Project Noah!
nature school apple icon

Project Noah Nature School visit nature school

Pale Tiger Swallowtail

Papilio eurymedon

Spotting Image 1

Notes:

ID Suggestion by: ForestDragon

Species ID Suggestions



Sign in to suggest organism ID

2 Comments

PamelaSmith
PamelaSmith 9 years ago

Thanks for the info!

Noah Ranger
ForestDragon
ForestDragon 9 years ago

Nice capture! You may have actually found a Pale Tiger Swallowtail, Papilio eurymedon. The black stripes and wing border are wider looking and wing shape is slightly different. Your butterfly also looks much less yellow than the Western Tiger.

Here is a reference so you can compare:
Pale Tiger Swallowtail: http://bugguide.net/node/view/40208
Western Tiger Swallowtail: http://bugguide.net/node/view/24573

Sign in to comment
PamelaSmith
Spotted by
PamelaSmith

Jackson Hole, Wyoming, USA

Spotted on Jul 14, 2014
Submitted on Jul 19, 2014

Spotted for Mission

Related Spottings

The Common Mormon ♂ Papilio machaon lime butterfly - Papilio demoleus Papilio cresphontes

Nearby Spottings

Black-Billed Magpie Spotting Spotting Spotting

Reference

Tags

tiger pale tiger swallowtail pale tiger swallowtail butterfly
Noah Guardians
Noah Sponsors
join Project Noah Team

Join the Project Noah Team