Project butterfly Mankulam Division

Graphium agamemnon menides (Fruhstorfer, 1904)  വിറവാലൻ                                                                                                               Photo Baiju K Malayalam Name  :   വിറവാലൻ Family  : Papilionidae Sub-family              : Papilioninae Tribe                      :   Leptocircini Order : Lepidoptera DISTRIBUTION             It is distributed in the entire Indian subcontinent as well as part of south east Asia. STATUS     :    Common HABITAT             Common in open country on the ...

Graphium teredon (Felder & Felder, 1865) —   നീലക്കുടുക്ക Malayalam Name              :      നീലക്കുടുക്ക Family                                :     Papilionidae Sub-family                         :     Papilioninae Tribe                                   :     Leptocircini Order                                  :     Lepidoptera DISTRIBUTION It occurs in southern India in the Western Ghats and in the Himalayas from Kashmir eastwards. Its global distribution extends over the Oriental and Australian regions. HABITAT It occurs in the evergreen and semi-ever...

  Graphium doson eleius (Felder & Felder, 1864)  നാട്ടുക്കുടുക്ക Malayalam Name  : നാട്ടുക്കുടുക്ക Family  : Papilionidae Sub-family              : Papilioninae Tribe                      :   Leptocircini Order : Lepidoptera DISTRIBUTION              W idespread and common throughout  Southeast Asia.  STATUS:    Common HABITAT The Common Jay is common in the thick, riparian, moist deciduous, semi-evergreen and evergreen forests. It inhabits primary as well as secondary forests, plantation and orchards.  HABITS   This butterfly is active throughout the day but difficult to see it settled down. While feeding from flowers, it keeps its wings vibrating, never fully settling on the flower. The mails gather at mud-puddling sites and usually form their  own species assemblages or join other Swallowtai...

  Graphium antiphates naira Moore 1903  വരയൻ വാൾവാലൻ                                                                          Photo     Baiju K Malayalam Name  : വരയൻ വാൾവാലൻ Family  : Papilionidae Sub-family              : Papilioninae Tribe                      :   Leptocircini Order : Lepidoptera DISTRIBUTION              W idespread and common throughout  South Asia and  Southeast Asia.  STATUS:      Common HABITAT The Common Jay is common in the thick, riparian, moist deciduous, semi-evergreen and evergreen forests. It inhabits primary as well as secondary forests, plantation and orchards.  HABITS...