common bluebottle

Description:

Wingspans around 60mm, black upper wings and brown lower wings marked by a central spot in the form of a blue or blue-green triangle, with apex pointing toward the body. Antenna, head, thorax and abdomen brown, the head and thorax suffused with greenish grey; beneath: the palpi, thorax and abdomen touched with dingy white, the abdomen with two whitish lateral lines.

Habitat:

Spotted at Tanjung Puting National Park - Kalimantan, Borneo - Indonesia it is also found across South and Southeast Asia, as well as eastern Australia. There are approximately sixteen subspecies with differing geographical distributions. Graphium sarpedon is primarily an inhabitant of moist, low-level rain forests (below 1600 m).

Notes:

Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Arthropoda Class: Insecta Order: Lepidoptera Family: Papilionidae Genus: Graphium Species: G. sarpedon