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Papilio buddha
A beautiful turquoise blue and speckled green and black swallowtail butterfly from the sahyadri region.
Western ghats
Spotted on Jan 14, 2019
Submitted on Jan 14, 2019
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Another warm welcome Dilesh, with congratulations, your Malabar Banded Peacock is our Spotting of the Day:
"Aquamarine and emerald 'glitter' make this Malabar banded peacock stand out! The Malabar banded peacock (Papilio buddha) is a butterfly species found in the Western Ghats of India. Papilio is a genus in the swallowtail butterfly family (Papilionidae), with about 200 members worldwide. Did you know? Papilio is the Latin word for butterfly. When Carl Linnaeus published his first edition of Systema Naturae in the 18th century, Papilio was the only genus for all species of butterflies in the world. Since then taxonomy has reassigned most of the 17,600 or so known butterflies species to new genera".
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