The Common Jay (Graphium doson) is tropical Papilionid butterfly having black wings with white bands and spots. Both sexes look alike. These are wide spread in South East Asia ranging from Assam, Southern India and Sri Lanka.
This butterfly is a swift flier and rarely settles down.
It lays a single egg underside of leaves.
Scientific Classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Insecta
Order:
Lepidoptera
Suborder:
Ditrysia
Superfamily:
Papilionoidea
Subfamily:
Papilionidae
Genus:
Graphium
Species:
doson
Citations:
One photograph was taken at Guwahati, Assam by Sumita. Another one by Harsh at Bangalore. The matter is taken from Wikipedia.
