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Papilio polymnestor (Swallowtail)

Wikipedia Abstract

Papilio polymnestor, the blue Mormon, is a large swallowtail butterfly found in South India and Sri Lanka. It is the "state butterfly" of the Indian state of Maharashtra.
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Prey / Diet

Citrus grandis (shaddock)[1]
Garcinia xanthochymus (garcinia)[2]
Murraya koenigii (curryleaftree)[1]
Paramignya andamanica[2]
Paramignya monophylla[2]

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Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1HOSTS - a Database of the World's Lepidopteran Hostplants Gaden S. Robinson, Phillip R. Ackery, Ian J. Kitching, George W. Beccaloni AND Luis M. Hernández
♦ 2Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0