Graphium agamemnon

Graphium agamemnon
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Papilionidae
Genus:	Graphium
Species:	G. agamemnon
Binomial name
Graphium agamemnon (Linnaeus, 1758)
Subspecies
G. a. agamemnon G. a. plisthenes (C. & R. Felder, 1864) G. a. neopommeranius (Honrath, [1888]) G. a. argynnus (Druce, 1888) G. a. ligatus (Rothschild, 1895) G. a. exilis (Rothschild, 1895) G. a. decoratus (Rothschild, 1895) G. a. guttatus (Rothschild, 1895) G. a. salomonis (Rothschild, 1895) G. a. obliteratus (Lathy, 1899) G. a. menides (Fruhstorfer, 1904) G. a. andamana (Lathy, 1907) G. a. rufoplenus (Fruhstorfer, 1917) G. a. atropictus (Fruhstorfer, 1903) G. a. pulo (Evans, 1932) G. a. baweata (Hagen, 1896) G. a. meton (Fruhstorfer, 1904) G. a. comodus (Fruhstorfer, 1903) G. a. ugiensis (Jordan, 1909) G. a. admiralia (Rothschild, 1915)
Synonyms
Papilio agamemnon Linnaeus, 1758 Papilio atreus (Fruhstorfer, 1903) Papilio mynion (Fruhstorfer, 1906)

Graphium agamemnon, the tailed jay, is a predominantly green and black tropical butterfly that belongs to the swallowtail family. The butterfly is also called the green-spotted triangle, tailed green jay, or green triangle. It is a common, non-threatened species native to India, Sri Lanka through Southeast Asia and Australia. Several geographic races are recognized.

Southern India to Saurashtra, northern India (Kumaon to Assam), Nepal, Sri Lanka, Andamans, Nicobars, Bangladesh, Brunei, Myanmar, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, southern China (including Hainan), Taiwan, South East Asia to New Guinea, Bougainville, Solomon Islands, and Australia (northern Queensland).

Male upperside black. Forewing with the following green markings: a spot at the extreme base of the costal margin, a transverse short bar near base of cell and seven spots beyond, two and two except the apical spot which is single; two spots beyond apex of cell; a spot at base of interspaces 1a and 1, followed by two oblique short macular bands; a discal series of spots decreasing in size towards the costa, and a postdiscal series of smaller spots that begins with two in interspace 1; the spots in interspace 7 in both series are out of line, placed outwards. Hindwing: three series of similarly-coloured markings that ran transversely across the wing more or less parallel to the dorsal margin, the upper markings (those in interspace 7) white; a short greenish stripe at the extreme base of the wing.

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