A likewise local species, found mainly from Southeastern USA to western El Salvador and Honduras.  A very beautiful swallowtail, especially the larger females that often fly very close to the ground, surprisingly seeking yellow flowers that do not grow more thantwo feet high.  It wilo sometimes soar several feet above the ground, but never as high as the larger two-tailed swallowtail (Papilio daunue or multicaudatus), which so far has only been observed once below the Montecristo cloud forest more than twenty years ago.  This is not surprising, as the larger more stable populations of this butterfly, once fairly common in neighboiuring Guatemala, seem to have become locally extinct due to habitat loss.