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papilio demoleus
The butterfly is tailless and has a wingspan 80–100 mm the background colour is black. A broad, irregular yellow band is found on the wings above, which is broken in the case of the forewing. Besides this the butterfly has a large number of irregular spots on the wing. The upper hindwing has a red tornal spot with blue edging around it.
These butterfly is a common and widespread swallowtail butterfly. It gets its common names from its host plants, which are usually citrus species such as the cultivated lime.
Spotted on Jul 31, 2014
Submitted on Jul 31, 2014
4 Comments
yes also with the pomelo tree.
Hi! Thanks for the response Catheline! :) i appreciate it...
One last thing, did you mean a calamansi or lemonsito plant?
Thank you.
i usually found them in a family of lemon/lime tree or citrus in our garden on thier early instar stage see other links https://jakesa.wordpress.com/2010/01/14/...
What kind of host plants do they usually lay their eggs?
Thanks.