Genuine British Iphicilides podalirius ?

[nomad]

The U.K. British butterfly website has this species down as a very rare immigrant. This specimen is in the collection of the guy who owns the L. dispar dispar and is supposed to be a genuine British specimen with the data ' Kent 1790, it certainly is set in the very old style and has a British black short pin. Did it fly across the channel or was it a product of the Kentish buccaneers, a notorious band who released specimens and then took eager collectors to the spot, but 1790 may have been too early them and this may indeed be a genuine British specimen. Who Knows.

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[wollastoni]

In those times, podalirius was in Normandy, so some of them may have crossed the channel.

[saturniidave]

Personally I think it is unlikely. The pin would not be black at that time, black pins only came into fashion in the late Victorian/Edwardian period. Pins at that time would have been hand-made in steel or brass with a wire-wound head.