Subspecies in India
(1) Graphium agamemnon agamemnon (Linnaeus, 1758) – Oriental Tailed Jay
(2) Graphium agamemnon menides (Fruhstorfer, 1904) – Dakhan Tailed Jay
(3) Graphium agamemnon andamana (Lathy, 1907) – Andaman Tailed Jay
(4) Graphium agamemnon decoratus (Rothschild, 1895) – Car Nicobar Tailed Jay
(5) Graphium agamemnon pulo Evans, 1932 – South Nicobar Tailed Jay
Conservation and Special status
This species is not legally protected in India under any schedules of WildLife (Protection) Act, 1972.
Photo Gallery and Species Biology
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| State | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | No date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Andaman and Nicobar Islands | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | ||||||||
| Andhra Pradesh | 1 | 1 | 2 | ||||||||||
| Arunachal Pradesh | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | ||||||
| Assam | 2 | 1 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 4 | |||||||
| Bihar | |||||||||||||
| Chandigarh | |||||||||||||
| Chhattisgarh | 3 | 4 | 2 | 2 | |||||||||
| Dadra & Nagar Haveli | |||||||||||||
| Daman & Diu | |||||||||||||
| Delhi | |||||||||||||
| Goa | |||||||||||||
| Gujarat | 2 | 1 | 30 | 1 | 4 | 10 | |||||||
| Haryana | |||||||||||||
| Himachal Pradesh | |||||||||||||
| Jammu and Kashmir UT | |||||||||||||
| Jharkhand | |||||||||||||
| Karnataka | 3 | 2 | 3 | 12 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 5 | |
| Kerala | 1 | 5 | 8 | 14 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 2 | ||||
| Ladakh UT | |||||||||||||
| Lakshadweep | |||||||||||||
| Madhya Pradesh | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 1 | ||||||||
| Maharashtra | 28 | 16 | 3 | 7 | 11 | 18 | 22 | 27 | 30 | 22 | 31 | 40 | |
| Manipur | |||||||||||||
| Meghalaya | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
| Mizoram | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
| Nagaland | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Odisha | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Pondicherry | |||||||||||||
| Punjab | |||||||||||||
| Rajasthan | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Sikkim | 1 | 1 | 2 | ||||||||||
| Tamil Nadu | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | ||||||||
| Tripura | |||||||||||||
| Uttar Pradesh | |||||||||||||
| Uttarakhand | 1 | 3 | 3 | 1 | |||||||||
| West Bengal | 57 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 11 | 6 | 9 | 62 | ||
| Total | 90 | 20 | 14 | 26 | 30 | 37 | 48 | 68 | 63 | 51 | 67 | 117 |
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, 10:11495–11550.
For the complete list of larval host plants of Indian butterflies, see the page on larval host plants.
Page citation
Saji, K., H. Ogale, P. Churi, M. Mandal, Manoj P., F. Khan, and S. Sondhi 2022. Graphium agamemnon (Linnaeus, 1758) – Tailed Jay. In Kunte, K., S. Sondhi, and P. Roy (Chief Editors). Butterflies of India, v. 3.06. Published by the Indian Foundation for Butterflies. URL: https://www.ifoundbutterflies.org/graphium-agamemnon, accessed 2022/08/20.