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Common Banded Peacock

Papilio crino

Photo by pamsai
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Field Notes

Description:

A brilliant blue largish swallowtail butterfly. There were several flying around along a path up Arunachala Mountain, but they only stopped very briefly to nectar at flowers, wings flapping fast all the time. Luckily these 2 were mud-puddling beside a small stream, and unknowingly posed for me !

Habitat:

Mud-puddling beside a stream running through thorn forest.

Reference Links:

Papilio crino, http://www.ifoundbutterflies.org/sp/750/Papilio-crino

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Comments (2)
MartinL
Gorgeous. Thanks for the preview.

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PublishedDecember 26, 2015

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