Garden Visitors

Fresh from my garden today! I believe my little visitor is an Ozark Swallowtail. Here's some information on him:

This is an interesting taxon, felt by most to be a legitimate species, more closely related to P machaon (by DNA) than to the sympatric P polyxenes ( to which it also has been ascribed.) The nearest machaon relative would be P. m. bairdi (also felt by some to be a full species.) It is very local in the pine forests of the Ozark Mtns or N Arkansas and S Missouri, and rather rare in general. Some authors continue to place it as a ssp of P machaon