Editing Scarce swallowtail (section)

==Status==
In some years the scarce swallowtail is quite abundant. The scarce swallowtail is getting rarer as blackthorn bushes are being cleared. The butterfly is now protected by law in the [[Czech Republic]], [[Slovakia]], [[Germany]], [[Hungary]], [[Luxembourg]], [[Russia]], [[Ukraine]], [[Poland]] and [[North Macedonia|Macedonia]] .<ref name="Threatened">{{cite book |last1=Collins |first1=N. Mark |author-link1=N. Mark Collins |last2=Morris |first2=Michael G. |date=1985 |chapter=''Iphiclides podalirius'' (Linnaeus, 1758) |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/98674#page/57/mode/1up |title=Threatened Swallowtail Butterflies of the World: The IUCN Red Data Book |publisher=[[International Union for Conservation of Nature|IUCN]] |location=Gland & Cambridge |page=45 |isbn=978-2-88032-603-6 |via=Biodiversity Heritage Library}}</ref> It is considered rare and endangered and protected in some provinces of Austria and of indeterminate status throughout Europe. In Armenia the species demonstrates stable population trend and is evaluated as Least Concern.<ref name="BCA">{{cite web |last1=Butterfly Conservation Armenia |title=The State of ''Iphiclides podalirius'' (Linnaeus, 1758) in Armenia |url=https://www.butterfly-conservation-armenia.org/iphiclides-podalirius.html |website=Butterfly Conservation Armenia |publisher=TSE NGO |access-date=9 June 2018}}</ref> Though referred by some authorities to be of status "vulnerable",<ref name="Morava">{{cite journal |last1=Kulfan |first1=Miroslav |last2=Degma |first2=Peter |last3=Kalivoda |first3=Henrik |year=1995 |title=Lepidoptera of different grassland types across the Morava floodplain |journal=Journal of Research on the Lepidoptera |volume=34 |issue=1–4 |pages=39–47 |doi=10.5962/p.266559 |url=http://lepidopteraresearchfoundation.org/pdf/pdf34/34-039.pdf |access-date=27 October 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110723155342/http://lepidopteraresearchfoundation.org/pdf/pdf34/34-039.pdf |archive-date=23 July 2011 |url-status=dead }}</ref>{{rp|46}}<ref>Popov, 1989. On research of Lepidoptera, Rhopalocera population of Carpathian State Reserve. /S.G. Popov// Information Report of thesis, IV Conference of young scientists. 1-3 of June 1989 devoted to 70 Anniversary of YCL. Uzhgorod, 1989:138.</ref> it is however unlisted in the [[IUCN Red List]].<ref>A search for "Iphiclides" in the [http://www.iucnredlist.org/apps/redlist/search search facility] of the [http://www.iucnredlist.org/ IUCN Red List web site] provides no result. Accessed 27 October 2010.</ref>