{{Short description|Subgenus of butterflies}} {{For|the son of Achilles who sometimes called Achillides (from his father name)|Neoptolemus}}
{{italic title}} {{Taxobox | name = ''Achillides'' | status = | image =Papilio bianor.jpg | image_caption = ''Papilio bianor'' | regnum = Animalia | phylum = Arthropoda | classis = Insecta | ordo = Lepidoptera | familia = Papilionidae | genus = ''Papilio'' | subgenus = '''''Achillides''''' | subgenus_authority = Hübner, 1819 }}
'''''Achillides''''', the '''peacock swallowtails''',<ref>[http://home.hkls.org/?page_id=737 Books on Butterflies] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140508222435/http://home.hkls.org/?page_id=737 |date=May 8, 2014 }} ''/home.hkls.org''</ref><ref>[http://www.nhbs.com/achillides_butterflies_peacock_swallowtails_tefno_66134.html Achillides Butterflies (Peacock Swallowtails)] ''nhbs.com''</ref> are a subgenus within the genus ''Papilio'' containing 29 species and over 100 subspecies distributed across the Indo-Australian Archipelago from East Russia, the Indian subcontinent and to Australia.
== Species == * ''Papilio arcturus'' <small>Westwood, 1842</small> – blue peacock * ''Papilio'' ''arjuna'' <small>Horsfield, 1828</small> * ''Papilio bianor'' <small>Cramer, [1777]</small> – Chinese peacock * ''Papilio blumei'' <small>Boisduval, 1836</small> – green swallowtail * ''Papilio buddha'' <small>Westwood, 1872</small> – Malabar banded peacock * ''Papilio chikae'' <small>Igarashi, 1965</small> – Luzon peacock swallowtail * ''Papilio crino'' <small>Fabricius, 1793</small> – common banded peacock * ''Papilio daedalus'' <small>C. Felder & R. Felder, 1861</small> * ''Papilio dehaanii'' <small>C. Felder & R. Felder, 1864</small> * ''Papilio dialis'' <small>Leech, 1893</small> – southern Chinese peacock * ''Papilio elephenor '' <small>Doubleday, 1845</small> – yellow-crested spangle * ''Papilio hermeli'' <small>Nuyda, 1992</small> * ''Papilio hoppo'' <small>Matsumura, 1908</small> * ''Papilio karna'' <small>C. & R. Felder, 1864</small> * ''Papilio krishna'' <small>Moore, 1857</small> – Krishna peacock * ''Papilio lorquinianus'' <small>C. Felder & R. Felder, 1865</small> - sea green swallowtail * ''Papilio maackii'' <small>Ménétriés, 1859</small> * ''Papilio montrouzieri'' <small>Boisduval, 1859</small> * ''Papilio neumoegeni'' <small>Honrath, 1890</small> * ''Papilio orsippus'' <small>Godman & Salvin, 1888</small> * ''Papilio palinurus'' <small>Fabricius, 1787</small> * ''Papilio paris'' <small>Linnaeus, 1758</small> – Paris peacock * ''Papilio peranthus'' <small>Fabricius, 1787</small> * ''Papilio pericles'' <small>Wallace, 1865</small> * ''Papilio polyctor'' <small>Boisduval, 1836</small> * ''Papilio ryukyuensis'' <small>Fujioka, 1975</small> * ''Papilio syfanius'' <small>Oberthür, 1886</small> * ''Papilio tamilana'' <small>Moore, 1881</small> * ''Papilio telegonus'' <small>C. Felder & R. Felder, 1860</small> * ''Papilio ulysses'' <small>Linnaeus, 1758</small> - blue mountain butterfly
== References == {{commons}} {{wikispecies|Papilio (Achillides)}} {{reflist}} * {{aut|Chou, I.; F. Yuan & Y.-L. Wang}}, 2000: New species, new subspecies, and new record of butterflies (Lepidoptera: Papilionidae) from China (II). ''Entomotaxonomia'' '''22(4)''': 266-274. * {{aut|Shimogori, Y.}}, 1993: A new subspecies of ''Achillides'' form Indonesia (Lepidoptera: Papilionidae). ''Futao'' '''12''': 17. * {{aut|Shimogori, Y.}}, 1997: A new subspecies of ''Achillides'' from Yapen Is., Indonesia (Lepidoptera : Papilionidae). ''Futao'' '''24''': 25-27. * {{aut|Späth, M.}}, 1992: Zwei neue taxa der gattung ''Papilio'' Linnaeus, 1758 aus Indonesien. (Lepidoptera: Papilionidae). ''Entomologische Zeitschrift'' '''102 (16)''': 289-304. * {{aut|Wang, Z.-G. & Y. Niu}}, 2002: New species of butterflies (Lepidoptera) from China, II. ''Entomotaxonomia'' '''2002 (4)''': 276-284. * {{aut|Bauer, E. & Frankenbach, T.}}, 1998: ''Schmetterlinge der Erde'', Butterflies of the world Part I (1), Papilionidae Papilionidae I: ''Papilio'', Subgenus ''Achillides'', ''Bhutanitis'', ''Teinopalpus''. Edited by Erich Bauer and Thomas Frankenbach. Keltern : Goecke & Evers; Canterbury : Hillside Books {{ISBN|978-3-931374-62-4}} for ''Papilio doddsi Janet, 1896''
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Category:Papilio Category:Taxa named by Jacob Hübner Category:Taxa described in 1819 Category:Insect subgenera
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