Papilio paris

• P. p. arjuna Horsfield, 1828 (central Java) • P. p. battacorum Rothschild, 1908 (north-eastern Sumatra) • P. p. chinensis Rothschild, 1895 (western China) • P. p. gedeensis Fruhstorfer, 1893 (western Java) • P. p. hermosanus Rebel, 1906 (central Taiwan, southern Taiwan) • P. p. nakaharai Shirôzu, 1960 (northern Taiwan and Japan (Ryukyu Islands)) • P. p. paris Linnaeus, 1758 (north-western India, File:Papilio paris decorosa.JPG|P. p. f. decorosa File:PapilioTamilanaF 492 1a.jpg|P. p. tamilana File:Papparis B8676.jpg|specimens showing variation ==Description==

Male Upperwings are black and irrorated (sprinkled) with dark green scales, which on the outer portion of the forewing coalesce and form an incomplete postdiscal narrow band which is straighter than the similar subterminal band on the forewing of Papilio polyctor. Female Similar to the male but somewhat paler and duller. Upperside of the forewing has the green postdiscal band shorter and more incomplete than in the male. Hindwing with the upper discal patch smaller, often green and not blue, the red subterminal lunule in interspace 7 is always present and more prominent than in the male. Underside of wings similar to that in the male, but the tornal and subtornal markings generally formed into more or less complete eyespots. Wingspan: 106–132 mm ==Distribution==

The Himalayas from Kumaon to Sikkim, Nepal and Bhutan; the hills of Assam, Burma and Tenasserim, extending to Thailand and the Malay Peninsula. A common insect in Sikkim, where it is found from the Terai up to . It is rare in Burma and Tenasserim. It also occurs in some parts of the Western Ghats in India. ==Gallery==

File:Mud-puddling of Paris Peacock Papilio paris WLB DSC 0403.jpg|Mud-puddling in Buxa Tiger Reserve, West Bengal, India File:Paris peacock Papilio paris.jpg|In Namdapha Tiger Reserve File:Paris Peacock (Papilio paris) at Samsing, Duars, WB W IMG 6453.jpg|The underside of the wings File:Common banded peacock.jpg|Mud-puddling in Thattekad, Kerala, India Paris peacock swallowtail (Papilio paris nakaharai) on pink woodsorrel (Oxalis debilis) Xindian.jpg|P. p. nakaharai on pink woodsorrel (Oxalis debilis) ==Taxonomy==

The species group paris has these members • Papilio arcturus Westwood, 1842 – blue peacock • Papilio bianor Cramer, [1777] – Chinese peacock • Papilio chikae Igarashi, 1965 – Luzon peacock swallowtail • Papilio dialis Leech, 1893 – southern Chinese peacock • Papilio doddsi Janet, 1896 • Papilio elephenor Doubleday, 1845 – yellow-crested spangle • Papilio hoppo Matsumura, 1908 • Papilio karna C. Felder & R. Felder, 1864 - jungle jade • Papilio krishna Moore, 1857 – Krishna peacock • Papilio longimacula Z.G. Wang & Y. Niu, 2002 • Papilio maackii Ménétriés, 1859 – alpine black swallowtail • Papilio paris Linnaeus, 1758 – Paris peacock • Papilio polyctor Boisduval, 1836 – common peacock or Indian peacock ==See also==

• Erich Bauer and Thomas Frankenbach, 1998 Schmetterlinge der Erde, Butterflies of the World Part I (1), Papilionidae Papilionidae I: Papilio, Subgenus Achillides, Bhutanitis, Teinopalpus. Edited by Erich Bauer and Thomas Frankenbach. Keltern: Goecke & Evers; Canterbury: Hillside Books, ==External links==