Project butterfly Mankulam Division

Graphium nomius ,  nomius (Esper 1799)  പുള്ളി വാൾവാലൻ Malayalam Name  : പുള്ളി വാൾവാലൻ   Family  : Papilionidae Sub-family              : Papilioninae Tribe                      :   Leptocircini Order : Lepidoptera DISTRIBUTION: The species found in South and Southeast Asia.   STAUUS :     Not Rare HABITAT: The Spot Swordtail is most common in the dry summer months and in deciduous forests. It occurs more commonly along streams-beds or other moist places in the forest. HABIT  It is powerful flier . It settle on wet sand in the forest streams to mudpuddle. It flies in the most hurried manner, swift and straight. It is very restless by nature and even while drinking its wings quiver. Its flight course consists of slight ups and down, which becomes more erratic if the flight is disturbed. It visits flowers of shrubs and large trees. It basks...

  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...