List of butterflies of India (Papilionidae)
[7] The swallowtails are generally easily identified in the field by their large size, prominent markings, colour, patterns and variable wing and tail shape.
Red-bodied swallowtails with black wings hat are found in low elevation forests along the Himalayas and the Northeast of India.
Black-coloured red-bodied swallowtails with elongated wings, prominent white and red spots, and tails that are found in low elevation forests along the Himalayas and the Northeast of India.
Red-bodied swallowtails commonly found all over India (except for the endemic Malabar rose), which serve as aposematic models for Papilio polytes in Batesian mimicry complex.
The zebras are tailless swallowtails found in the Himalayas and Northeast that mimic the aposematic bluish-white Danaus milkweed butterflies.
Lamproptera or dragontails, are small swallowtail butterflies with large tails found in the tropical and subtropical forests of Northeast India, and further East.
The Parnassiinae include about 50 medium-sized, white or yellow high-altitude butterflies that are distributed across Asia, Europe and North America, of which 19 species fly in India.
The Apollos, genus Parnassius are high altitude palearctic butterflies that are different in appearance from other swallowtails, being of moderate size, with white ground colour, and spotted with red, black and blue.
Blue Mormon ( Papilio polymnestor ), common Mormon ( Papilio polytes ) and common bluebottle ( Graphium sarpedon ). (left to right anticlockwise)
