In the male the forewing usually with greywhite or yellowish band or area from the hindmargin forwards; hindwing with red discal spots, of which often only the one placed at the abdominal margin is distinct.

Female with 5 or 6 red discal spots on the hindwing, three long, extending nearly or quite to the cell; in female-f [form] ariarathes Esp.

long, also always present beneath; hindwing with 3 or 4 red spots midway between cell and margin.

2 with 3 white or yellowish discal spots and a rather large cell-spot on the forewing; the apical half or two-thirds of the cell of the hindwing red, as are also 6 large discal spots, abdominal margin at least partly red.

Male: forewing usually with a band reaching from the hindmargin to beyond the 3 radial, merely indicated on the underside; hindwing with 4 or 5 spots placed separate from the cell.

Female: forewing with the long white discal band which is also peculiar to the Aristolochia-Papilios P. anchises thelios and P. aglaope, this band consists of two large spots with a smaller one placed before and behind them; hindwing with 6 red spots, 3 of which are contiguous to the cell.

(13d), forewing without band or spots; f. cyamon Gray (= charoba Kirby (13d), Male with narrow band on the forewing, on the whole somewhat more distally placed than in the male of evagoras, female with narrow, indistinct band on the forewing, with cell-spot on the hindwing, the spots on the hindwing sometimes yellowish white; in f. gayi Luc.

Male:forewing with a pure white area, of almost even width, reaching from the hindmargin to the 1. median, above about 6 mm.

broad and on the underside only a trifle narrower: hindwing with 6 long red discal spots, the 3 middle ones contiguous to the cell.