Summary ⁴

Color: Upper surface of forewing cell with 3 dark gray bars. Front wing has no red spots. Upper surface of hindwing with 2 red spots; female usually has red anal bar. Mated females have large, white keeled pouch (sphragis) at end of abdomen.
Wingspan: 2 - 2 1/2 inches (50 - 62 mm)
Host plants: Bleeding heart family (Fumariaceae) including Dicentra uniflora, D. formosa, and D. pauciflora.
Overwintering stage: eggs
Mate-Location system: patrolling
Flight: June - July
Conservation: Subspecies strohbeeni from California's Santa Cruz Mountains is extinct.
NCGR: G5 - Demonstrably secure globally, though it may be quite rare in parts of its range, especially at the periphery.

https://www.butterfliesandmoths.org/species/Parnassius-clodius

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1. (c) pawprints, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)
2. (c) Ken-ichi Ueda, some rights reserved (CC BY), uploaded by Ken-ichi Ueda
3. no rights reserved, uploaded by Scott Loarie
4. Adapted by Kaiya Gibson from a work by (c) mgillet, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA), https://www.inaturalist.org/guide_taxa/1715865

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