Endangered
Papilio chikae
Papilio chikae
Papilio chikae is a moth or butterfly in the family Papilionidae (order Lepidoptera), recorded as Endangered.
Appearance
Male Luzon peacock swallowtail have golden-green scales on the tops of their forewings and hindwings, with the hindwings having green and red patches. Their wing tails are relatively long and narrow with green patches.
It was first described in 1965 and is endemic to the island of Luzon in the Philippines.
Range and habitat
Papilio chikae are found at elevations of 1500 meters and above in the northern region of the island of Luzon. Santo Tomas but not the nearby Sierra Madre mountain range, that is presumably at too low of an altitude. Their high altitude habitat is disrupted by meadows, shrub land, and ravines.
Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.
Diet
The adult is what most collections hold. The larva — the feeding stage — is often undescribed for the rarest names.
Life history follows the order: complete metamorphosis in moths and beetles, nymphs in grasshoppers and bugs. This page does not invent a host plant that no source named.
In crisis
It is listed as endangered by the IUCN and ESA, and is included on Appendix I of CITES, thereby making commercial international trade illegal.
Named moths and butterflies with a high threat category are often known from a small range and a thin series. Host-plant loss leaves little to recount.
Papilio chikae is Endangered on this catalog because that is the IUCN category stored on Wikidata. Confirm the official criteria and any later count on iucnredlist.org.
Sources
Written for this catalog from the English Wikipedia article on Papilio chikae, Wikidata item Q268420. Family and order context is original field-guide writing about the group, not a copied assessment of this one species. Wikipedia text is CC BY-SA. Not an IUCN assessment. Counts, when quoted, can change — confirm them on the recovery programme and on iucnredlist.org.
