Scarce swallowtail as far as the Arabian Peninsula, Pakistan, India and western China. A few specimens of the scarce swallowtail have been reported from central Sweden and the United Kingdom but they were probably only strays and not migrants. These swallowtail butterflies inhabit gardens, towns as well as the countryside, in fields and open woodlands. They are found in places with sloe thickets and particularly orchards. In the Alps they can be found up to altitudes of 2000 m., but usually they prefer foothills and lower levels. The presence of "Iphiclides podalirius" in the floodplain of the Morava River in the Slovak
Holdrian comma equal temperament are closer to Pythagorean tuning than that of 55. Thus Mercator's comma and the Holdrian comma are two distinct but related intervals. The name "Arabian comma" may be inaccurate; the comma has been employed mainly in Turkish music theory by Kemal Ilerici, and by the Turkish composer Erol Sayan. The name of this comma is "Holder koması" in Turkish. For instance, the makam "rast" (similar to the Western major scale) may be considered in terms of Holdrian commas: while in contrast, the makam "nihavend" (similar to the Western minor scale): has medium seconds between d–e, e–f, g–a, a–b,