Description

• Common Name : Redbreast
• Scientific Name : Papilio alcmenor (C. & R. Felder)
• Family : PAPILIONIDAE
• Wingspan : 110-130mm
• Colour : Bluish black with broad red stripe from base all along dorsum on UN.
• Habit : In flight, could be mistaken for Great Mormon. Comes to flowers and moist mud patches. Seen on the wing from March to Sept. upto 1825m.
• Larval Host Plants : Data deficient.
• Location : North Bengal

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