Machaon
Papilio machaon
Papillon
Grand porte-queue jaune et noir de la région holarctique. Les chenilles se nourrissent surtout de plantes de la famille de la carotte (Apiaceae) et utilisent aussi la rue dans certaines parties de l'aire de répartition, ce qui en fait le pendant honnête de l'Ancien Monde pour les jardins méditerranéens où poussent rue et fenouil.
Plan pour cette espèce
Ensemble de plantes adaptées à Chicago, IL : d'abord les plantes hôtes et spécialistes, puis les plantes à nectar, fruits, graines, feuillage et abri qui restent compatibles avec la lecture climatique actuelle et du milieu du siècle.
1 relation essentielle / 5 plantes de soutien
Liens hôte/spécialiste : 1
Liens fourrage/pollinisation : 5
Liens abri : 0
Rôles de relation : 2
Rue
Essentielle / Plantes hôtes des larves
Old World swallowtail caterpillars use rue in parts of the species range; this is the precise swallowtail host link behind the rue foliage note.
Fleur-ballon
De soutien / Plantes à nectar
Old World swallowtail butterflies (Papilio machaon) forage nectar from open, upward-facing flowers in their native and European garden range; balloon flower's wide star blooms in summer are the type of resource this species uses.
Œillet de Grenoble
De soutien / Plantes à nectar
Old World swallowtail is recorded nectaring on Dianthus species in European calcareous grassland habitats where both co-occur.
Cerisier du Japon
De soutien / Plantes à nectar
Old World swallowtail adults occasionally visit cherry blossoms for nectar in European settings.
Lilas de Perse
De soutien / Plantes à nectar
Old World swallowtail (Papilio machaon) is recorded nectaring on Syringa in European gardens; plausible on Persian lilac within its overlapping Palearctic range.
Valériane rouge
De soutien / Plantes à nectar
Old World swallowtail (Papilio machaon) is a frequently reported nectar visitor to red valerian in the plant's Mediterranean native range and in European gardens; a long-tongued generalist well suited to the spurred flowers.
Plantes du catalogue
Plantes hôtes des larves · 1
Old World swallowtail caterpillars use rue in parts of the species range; this is the precise swallowtail host link behind the rue foliage note.
Plantes à nectar · 9
Old World swallowtail butterflies (Papilio machaon) forage nectar from open, upward-facing flowers in their native and European garden range; balloon flower's wide star blooms in summer are the type of resource this species uses.
Old World swallowtail is recorded nectaring on Dianthus species in European calcareous grassland habitats where both co-occur.
Old World swallowtails (Papilio machaon) visit late-summer shrubs with accessible nectar across the species' native and naturalized Eurasian range.
Old World swallowtail adults occasionally visit cherry blossoms for nectar in European settings.
Old World swallowtail (Papilio machaon) is recorded nectaring on Syringa in European gardens; plausible on Persian lilac within its overlapping Palearctic range.
Old World swallowtail (Papilio machaon) is a frequently reported nectar visitor to red valerian in the plant's Mediterranean native range and in European gardens; a long-tongued generalist well suited to the spurred flowers.
The Old World swallowtail (Papilio machaon) ranges across coastal and grassland habitats co-extensive with Armeria maritima in Europe and is a plausible nectar visitor to the exposed, open flower heads.
Butterflies including the swallowtail nectar at open, daisy-type composites like this in sunny European meadows and gardens; graded plausible generalist nectar foraging, with the host plants for the swallowtail being umbellifers rather than this plant.
Within the native range the Old World swallowtail overlaps this lily across China, Japan, Korea and the Russian Far East, and the same swallowtail-type floral morphology applies. The best-studied Asian visitors to lilies of this shape are actually Papilio xuthus and the black swallowtails of the P. helenus and P. protenor group, none of which has an entry in this catalog and which are therefore named here rather than wired as relationships.
Répartition
Largement répandu en Europe, en Afrique du Nord, en Asie tempérée et dans certaines parties du nord-ouest de l'Amérique du Nord, avec des sous-espèces locales et des préférences d'habitat variables selon les régions.
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Plotwright. (n.d.). Machaon (Papilio machaon). Retrieved 2026, August 20, from https://plotwright.com/wildlife/papilio-machaon
Sources utilisées pour cette fiche
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UK Butterflies: Swallowtail
Species account used for identification, flight-season context, and larval-host ecology.
Wikipedia: Papilio machaon
Corroborating reference for the Holarctic range and Apiaceae/rue host-plant context.
GBIF: Papilio machaon
GBIF Backbone Taxonomy accepts Papilio machaon Linnaeus, 1758 as a species, matched exactly.
iNaturalist: Papilio machaon
iNaturalist taxon 56529 is the active species Papilio machaon, giving crowd-sourced observation range data.