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Common Bluebottle
Graphium sarpedon


I saw a few of these striking swallowtails near the Buddhist caves at Kanheri, Mumbai. I was guiding students and couldn't take time to photograph them but I did get this awful record shot which nevertheless gives an idea of what the butterfly looks like:



You can't tell from this ragged individual but the hindwings normally show protusions but not really tails.