Giant Blue Swallowtail gift card using their large pedipalps (pincers)

using their large pedipalps (pincers) to attack

but are completely harmless to humans because they cannot bite or sting

They also show extreme sexual size dimorphism

aka the Ulysses butterfly or the Blue emperor

It is found from northern Argentina to Mexico

Giant Blue Swallowtail gift card using their large pedipalps (pincers)Papilio zalmoxis is a giant African butterfly in the family Papilionidae. The name of the species is given in honor of Zalmoxis a divinity of the Getae (a people of the lower Danube), mentioned by Herodotus in his Histories IV, 9396. Previously thought to produce the blue colour by Tyndall scattering, the scales of Papilio zalmoxis are not nanostructured for incoherent scattering, instead the blue is a fluorescent pigmentary color. This species can be