Papilio glaucus (Linnaeus, 1758)

 Philadelphia Pennsylvania; 7/2007  male ssp glaucus  Philadelphia Pennsylvania; 7/2007  male ssp glaucus female
Winter Park Florida, USA; June 20 1980  ssp. maynardi female dark form

   Widespread and common from Alaska and Canada to S Mexico (in the central highlands). Several ssp., canadensis, alexiares and rutulus have been treated by some as full species.
        alexiares - N Veracruz Mountains, not common.
        garcia - Mountains of NE Mexico
        rutulus - W USA to SW Canada
        maynardi - Florida peninsula. Larger
        glaucus - Eastern USA
        canadensis - Alaska through all of Canada to Atlantic shores.