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common bluebottle

Graphium sarpedon

Photo by JigneshShirke
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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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Comments (8)

ya they are tough to capture.. but its easy when they are mud puddling http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mud-puddling
खूप सुंदर ! पाहून फारच आनंद झाला!!
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..!!
व्वा किती सुंदर....अवर्णनीय..!!
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PublishedOctober 30, 2011

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