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title: "Chinese Yellow Swallowtail"
description: "Papilio xuthus — Insecten en spinnen. Papilio xuthus, the Asian swallowtail, Chinese yellow swallowtail, Japanese swallowtail, Korean swallowtail or Xuthus swallowtail, is a yellow-colored, medium to large sized swallowtail butterfly found in northeast Asia, northern Myanmar, southern China, Taiwan, the Korean Peninsula, Japan (from Hokkaidō to the Yaeyama Islands), Siberia and the Hawaiian Islands."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/nl/animal/chinese-yellow-swallowtail
last_updated: 2026-09-20
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# Chinese Yellow Swallowtail

> Papilio xuthus — Insecten en spinnen. Papilio xuthus, the Asian swallowtail, Chinese yellow swallowtail, Japanese swallowtail, Korean swallowtail or Xuthus swallowtail, is a yellow-colored, medium to large sized swallowtail butterfly found in northeast Asia, northern Myanmar, southern China, Taiwan, the Korean Peninsula, Japan (from Hokkaidō to the Yaeyama Islands), Siberia and the Hawaiian Islands.

- Scientific name: *Papilio xuthus*
- Category: `insects` (Insecten en spinnen)
- Habitats: unknown
- iNaturalist observations: 8887
- Wikidata: [Q132092](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q132092)
- iNaturalist taxon: [145586](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/145586)

## Names

- en: Chinese Yellow Swallowtail
- de: Japanischer Schwalbenschwanz
- es: Mariposa asiática de colas de golondrina

## Countries with the most observations

JP (2743), CN (2321), HK (1191), KR (1166), US (484), TW (342), RU (73), MO (45), VN (8), IN (5)

## Summary

Papilio xuthus, the Asian swallowtail, Chinese yellow swallowtail, Japanese swallowtail, Korean swallowtail or Xuthus swallowtail, is a yellow-colored, medium to large sized swallowtail butterfly found in northeast Asia, northern Myanmar, southern China, Taiwan, the Korean Peninsula, Japan (from Hokkaidō to the Yaeyama Islands), Siberia and the Hawaiian Islands. The butterfly has been observed thrice in New Zealand. Once in Dunedin in 1996 emerging from a chrysalis in a car yard specializing in Japanese used cars; it is thought the chrysalis arrived through one of the cars. and later in Auckland in 2011 and 2016.…

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Papilio_xuthus

## Photo

![Chinese Yellow Swallowtail](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/chinese-yellow-swallowtail/medium.jpg)

Photo: kbkash · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/198182173

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/chinese-yellow-swallowtail?lang=nl` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).