Common Banded Peacock


Papilio crino (Fabricius 1793) നാട്ടുമയൂരി


Malayalam Name 

:

 നാട്ടുമയൂരി

Family 

:

Papilionidae

Sub-family             

:

Papilioninae

Tribe                     

: 

 Leptocircini

Order

:

Lepidoptera
DISTRIBUTION: The species found in  Indian sub continent
STATUS: Not Common
HABITAT: lowland mixed deciduous forest as well as hot drier jungles up to 900 m
HABIT: 

IDENTIFICATION FEATURES:  Black butterfly with  with 100–140 mm wings span.

The forewing has the discal transverse bluish-green band  decreasing in width towards the costal margin; in the female it is more sinuous than in the male. The hindwing has the transverse bluish-green band very variable in width; tornal ocellus claret-red with a large black centre inwardly edged with blue; the subterminal diffuse green lunules restricted to interspaces 2,3 and 4; the spatular apex of the tail with a small patch of bluish-green scales.
LARVAL HOST PLANT: Ventilago goughii (Rhamnaceae). Citrus spp., Melicope lunu-ankenda (കനല) , Toddalia asiatica (തൊടലി) , Zanthoxylum rhetsa (മുള്ളിലം) , Z. ovalifolium, Z. oxyphyllum (Rutaceae).

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