Common Blue Bottle

Common Blue Bottle

Graphium sarpedon teredon

Felder &  Felder - PAPILIONIDAE

( = Zetides sarpedon ( Linnaeus ))

Graphium sarpedon teredon Felder and Felder PAPILIONIDAE

Common Blue Bottle

(=Zetides sarpedon ( Linnaeus ))

Adult

Upperside black. FW elongate, triangular with brilliant turquoise blue/greenish wide band, pointed at the tip and a few rounded spots extending to the apex. HW with the band pointed towards the tail and sub-marginal semilunar blue spots. Underside brown with band more bluish than the upperside. HW with red spots at the base and the disc. Wingspan 80-90mm.

Common in the wooded regions of south India and in the Himalayas from Kashmir further eastwards. Among the swallowtails, it comes readily to natural baits such as rotting insects. A very nervous butterfly and often difficult to catch. Visits the flowers of lantana. Etc.

Larva

Green with transverse golden band and a pair of spines on each thoracic segment and anal segment.

Feeds on cinnamon, camphor, machilus, avocado, miliusa odoratissima, Litsea glutinosa, Alseodaphne semecarpifolia, Michelia doltsopa, cryptocarya spp. Etc

Distribution

India, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, china, Bangladesh, Myanmar, Malaysia, japan, papua new guinea, the Solomon islands and Australia.