Papilio anchisiades, the ruby-spotted swallowtail^[1][2] or red-spotted swallowtail,^[3] is a butterfly of the family Papilionidae. It is found from southern Texas south to Argentina. Rare strays can be found up to Kansas, southeastern Arizona, and western Texas.

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Ruby-spotted swallowtail
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Papilionidae
Genus:	Papilio
Species:	P. anchisiades
Binomial name
Papilio anchisiades Esper, 1788[1]
Subspecies
6, see text
Synonyms
Papilio anchises Stoll, 1780, not Linnaeus, 1758 Papilio hipponous Hübner, [1819] Papilio archelaus Godart, 1819 Papilio theramenes C. & R. Felder, 1861 Heraclides matusiki Johnson & Rozycki, 1986 Papilio isidorus Bates, 1861 (preocc. Doubleday, 1846) Papilio pompeius Kirby, 1871 (preocc. Fabricius, 1781) Heraclides isidorus Priamides anchisiades Heraclides anchisiades Papilio idaeus Fabricius, 1793 Papilio pandion Bates, 1861 Papilio pandion C. & R. Felder, 1865 Papilio pandonius Staudinger, 1894 Papilio evander Godart, 1819 (preocc. Stoll, 1780)

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The wingspan is 70–100 mm.

The larvae feed on various species of the family Rutaceae, including Citrus, Casimiroa, and Zanthoxylum species. The adults feed on flower nectar.

Listed alphabetically.^[3]

• Papilio anchisiades anchisiades – (Venezuela, Colombia to the Guayanas, Peru)
• Papilio anchisiades capys (Hübner, [1809]) – (Bolivia to Parana, Argentina, Paraguay)
• Papilio anchisiades idaeus (Fabricius, 1793) – ruby-spotted swallowtail (Texas, Mexico to Panama)^[2]
• Papilio anchisiades lamasi (Brown, 1994) – (Ecuador)
• Papilio anchisiades philastrius Fruhstorfer, 1915 – (Trinidad)

• Mounted specimen from Peru