The scarce swallowtail can often be found here in the Campo, in the thermals it often glides a few meters over the meadows.
Linnaeus gave the scarce swallowtail and the old world swallowtail the species names podalirius and machaon, based on the brothers and ancestors of medicine. Podalirius is assigned internal medicine, diagnostics and psychiatry as he diagnosed the madness of Ajax to the king of Salamis, who then threw himself on his sword during the siege of Troy, out of shame at his madness.
