southern festoon
zerynthia polyxena latin

This species is the only host plant of the caterpillars of a beautiful uncommon butterfly (Zerynthia polyxena).

Zerynthia polyxena deminuta (Verity, 1947) southern of France.

Zerynthia polyxena carmenae (Sabariego et Martinez, 1991) in Bulgaria.

Zerynthia polyxena caucasiae (Nardelli & Hirschfeld, 2002) north west of Caucasus.

The Southern Festoon (Zerynthia polyxena) is a striking butterfly belonging to the Papilionidae family of butterflies.