The forewings are black. The entire wing is littered with innumerable  individual green scales. At the edge are dark veins and strip.
The underside is brown. The outside half of the wing is white and contains innumerable brown strips and veins.

The hind wings of Papilio bianor are black and have tails. The margin is ridged. The front half of the wing is littered with innumerable  individual blue oder violett scales. The rear half of the wing is littered with innumerable  individual green scales. At the edge there is a chain of big spots, which can be colored different. In the rear part there is a magenta eye.
The underside is dark-brown. The inner half of the wing is littered with innumerable  individual white scales. At the edge there is a chain of red or magenta spots.

The body is black and it has some green scales.

Sex differences: Only the male has the hairy areas on the upside of forewings.

Rutaceae:

• Citrus depressa
• Citrus junos
• Citrus tachibana
• Euodia gabrifolia
• Euodia lepta
• Euodia meliaefolia
• Orixa japonica
• Phellodendron amurense
• Poncirus trifoliata
• Skimmia japonica
• Zanthoxylum ailanthoides
• Zanthoxylum nitidum
• Zanthoxylum piperitum
• Zanthoxylum schinifolium
  
  
  

The first description of this butterfly was in 1777 by Cramer. There are many subspecies.

• Papilio bianor doii   [Matsumura, 1928]
• Papilio bianor ganesa   [Doubleday, 1842]
• Papilio bianor hachijonis   [Matsumura, 1919]
• Papilio bianor junia   [Jordan, 1909]
• Papilio bianor kotoensis   [Sonan, 1927]
• Papilio bianor mandschurica   [Matsumura, 1927]
• Papilio bianor nakaharae   [Matsumura, 1929]
• Papilio bianor pinratanai   [Racheli & Cotton, 1983]
• Papilio bianor stockleyi   [Gabriel, 1936]
• Papilio bianor takasago   [Nakahara & Esaki, 1930]
• Papilio bianor tokaraensis   [Fujioka, 1975]

The status of some of these subspecies is disputed. The former subspecies Papilio bianor dehaanii C & Fields, 1864 already one explained as an independent species (Papilio dehaani).

•  CITES: (Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora):
  
  -no entry- (as at 23.06.2005)
  
  
• EU regulation on trading with species of wild Fauna and Flora
  
  -no entry- (as at 19.08.2005)
  
  
• IUCN Red List of threatened species:
  
  -no entry- (as at 2004)  (see: www.redlist.org/)
  
  
  

Papilio dehaanii C & Felder 1864  

Papilio maackii Ménétries 1859  

Papilio bianor Cramer 1777

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• Kingdom:    ANIMALIA
• Phylum:    ARTHROPODA
• Class:    INSECTA
• Order:    LEPIDOPTERA
• Suborder:    DITRYSIA
• Superfamily:    PAPILIONOIDAE
• Family:    PAPILIONIDAE
• Subfamily:    PAPILIONINAE
• Tribe:    PAPILIONINI
• Genus:    PAPILIO
• Specific name:    BIANOR

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