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common bluebottle

Graphium sarpedon

Description:

Graphium sarpedon, the common bluebottle or blue triangle (Australia), is a species of swallowtail butterfly found in South and Southeast Asia, as well as parts of Australia. There are approximately 15 subspecies with differing geographical distributions.

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8 Comments

CindyBinghamKeiser
CindyBinghamKeiser 12 years ago

Beautiful butterfly!

JigneshShirke
JigneshShirke 12 years ago

ya they are tough to capture.. but its easy when they are mud puddling
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mud-puddlin...

The MnMs
The MnMs 12 years ago

I also love the colors!

Hema  Shah
Hema Shah 12 years ago

खूप सुंदर ! पाहून फारच आनंद झाला!!

Ashish Nimkar
Ashish Nimkar 12 years ago

I believe that this also a tough to capture like this as they are very unstable from Swallowtail family of spectacular butterflies "Beautiful and Restless". Nice spotting..!!

Darwin26
Darwin26 12 years ago

great colors!

thank you,

Ashish Nimkar
Ashish Nimkar 12 years ago

Super spotting..!!

Ashish Nimkar
Ashish Nimkar 12 years ago

व्वा किती सुंदर....अवर्णनीय..!!

JigneshShirke
Spotted by
JigneshShirke

Maharashtra, India

Spotted on Jan 1, 2011
Submitted on Oct 30, 2011

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