Description: 47-64 mm. This is a large swallowtail that is brown in color and has orange-yellow spots on the outer margin of the forwing, extending into the hindwing. There is some faint greenish dusting and a red spot on the hindwing. The tails are not clubbed like other swallowtails and have a yellow line in the middle. Ventral hindwing has rows of bring orange and blue spots. They also have brick colored antennae.

 

Habitat and Distribution: swamps and pine lands where host plants grow throughout Florida and in Northern Mexico

 

Host Plant: Bay trees such as (Persea borbonia)

 

Natural History: This species should be concidered a very rare stray to the Keys and has no breeding populations. There have been records in Key Largo