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Papilio elephenor

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along the costal margin; posterior half irrorated with brilliant green scales; tornus with a small claret-red patch touched above with a few violet scales and also with an admarginal dusky black spot. Cilia brown alternated with white. Underside black. Forewing with very broad and prominent cellular and internervular pale streaks, the costal margin and the basal half of interspaces 1a and 1 distinctly black. Hindwing: a series of claret-red subterminal lunules, two side by side in each interspace, all more or less irrorated inwardly with violet scales; at the tornal angle these lunules form a conspicuous oblong patch that stretches a short way along the dorsum and bears a subbasal and a subapical black spot. Antennae, the thorax and abdomen narrowly along the middle black; head pinkish red; abdomen on the sides buff coloured.
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Male upperside dull black. Forewing with an irroration (sprinkling) of brilliant green scales that form cellular and internervular streaks. Hindwing: anterior half to nearly the median vein and above vein 5 irrorated with brilliant blue scales that become gradually sparse towards and cease entirely
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Female "Agrees with the male. The anal (tornal) red mark on the hindwings above is larger, rounded, marginal, and includes a small black spot, the outer margin (termen) of the hindwing is distinctly sinuate between the median veins (veins 2, 3, 4), and at the, end of the upper median
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Choudhury, Kushal (2010) Rediscovery of two rare butterflies Papilio elephenor Doubleday, 1845 and Shijimia moorei Leech, 1889 from proposed Ripu-Chirang Wildlife Sanctuary, Assam, India. Journal of Threatened Taxa 2(4):
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Butterflies of the Western Ghats, India (including Sri Lanka) - A Biodiversity Assessment of a Threatened Mountain System
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Threatened Swallowtail Butterflies of the World: The IUCN Red Data Book
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Gay, Thomas; Kehimkar, Isaac David; Punetha, Jagdish Chandra (1992).
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The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma
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Eukaryota
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Papilionidae
Papilio
Binomial name
Doubleday
swallowtail butterfly
Northeast India
Assam
nervule
List of butterflies of India
List of butterflies of India (Papilionidae)
Bingham, C.T.
The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma
Taylor and Francis, Ltd.
ISBN
9783931374624
Threatened Swallowtail Butterflies of the World: The IUCN Red Data Book
IUCN
ISBN
978-2-88032-603-6
Evans, W.H.
Bombay Natural History Society
Gaonkar, Harish

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