Subspecies in India
Taxonomic Information
Until recently, it was treated as a subspecies of Graphium sarpedon Linnaeus, 1758 – Common Bluebottle.
Conservation and Special status
This species is not legally protected in India under any schedules of WildLife (Protection) Amendment Act, 2022 ('WPAA').
Photo Gallery and Species Biology
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This species has been recorded so far from Goa, Gujarat, Karnataka, Kerala, Maharashtra, and Tamil Nadu, within the Indian limits.
This species is common.
| State | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | No date |
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| Andaman and Nicobar Islands UT | |||||||||||||
| Andhra Pradesh | |||||||||||||
| Arunachal Pradesh | |||||||||||||
| Assam | |||||||||||||
| Bihar | |||||||||||||
| Chandigarh | |||||||||||||
| Chhattisgarh | |||||||||||||
| Dadra & Nagar Haveli UT | |||||||||||||
| Daman & Diu UT | |||||||||||||
| Delhi | |||||||||||||
| Goa | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
| Gujarat | 2 | ||||||||||||
| Haryana | |||||||||||||
| Himachal Pradesh | |||||||||||||
| Jammu and Kashmir UT | |||||||||||||
| Jharkhand | |||||||||||||
| Karnataka | 1 | 3 | 8 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 10 | 3 | 4 | ||
| Kerala | 3 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 16 | 7 | 4 | 10 | |||
| Ladakh UT | |||||||||||||
| Lakshadweep | |||||||||||||
| Madhya Pradesh | |||||||||||||
| Maharashtra | 8 | 5 | 3 | 10 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 9 | 22 | ||
| Manipur | |||||||||||||
| Meghalaya | |||||||||||||
| Mizoram | |||||||||||||
| Nagaland | |||||||||||||
| Odisha | |||||||||||||
| Puducherry UT | |||||||||||||
| Punjab | |||||||||||||
| Rajasthan | |||||||||||||
| Sikkim | |||||||||||||
| Tamil Nadu | 2 | 2 | 1 | ||||||||||
| Telangana | |||||||||||||
| Tripura | |||||||||||||
| Uttar Pradesh | |||||||||||||
| Uttarakhand | |||||||||||||
| West Bengal | |||||||||||||
| Total | 12 | 10 | 11 | 15 | 11 | 4 | 7 | 8 | 23 | 22 | 17 | 37 |
Miliusa tomentosa (Annonaceae). Alseodaphne spp., Alseodaphne owdenii, Alseodaphne semecarpifolia, Camphora officinalis, Cinnamomum spp., Cinnamomum camphora, Cinnamomum macrocarpum, Cinnamomum malabathrum, Cinnamomum micranthum, Cinnamomum tamala, Cinnamomum verum, Litsea glutinosa (=Litsea sebifera), Machilus glaucescens (=Persea macrantha), Machilus odoratissimus (Lauraceae). Magnolia doltsopa (Magnoliaceae). Geijera salicifolia (Rutaceae).
Some of these records may in fact belong to Graphium sarpedon, and need to be verified.
For the complete list of larval host plants of Indian butterflies, see the page on larval host plants.
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Key Reference:
Nitin, R., V. C. Balakrishnan, P. V. Churi, S. Kalesh, S. Prakash, and K. Kunte. 2018. Larval host plants of the butterflies of the Western Ghats, India. Journal of Threatened Taxa, 10(4): 11495–11550.
Page citation
Tadse, S., and K. Kunte. 2026. Graphium teredon (C. & R. Felder, [1865]) – Narrow-banded Bluebottle. In Kunte, K., S. Sondhi, and P. Roy (Chief Editors). Butterflies of India, v. 4.12. Published by the Indian Foundation for Butterflies. URL: https://www.ifoundbutterflies.org/graphium-teredon, accessed 2026/05/19.