Description

• Common Name : Common Batwing
• Scientific Name : Atrophaneura varuna (White)
• Family : PAPILIONIDAE
• Wingspan : 88-136mm
• Colour : Male UP bluish black and unmarked.
• Habit : On the wing in the Himalayan foothills up to 2130 m in April, May and July. Keeps to forested regions of warm valleys. Flies very leisurely above trees in the river valleys. Visits flowers. Has a disagreeable smell.
• Larval Host Plants : Aristolochia kaempferi, A. tagala
• Location : North Bengal

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