Subspecies in India
(1) Graphium sarpedon sarpedon (Linnaeus, 1758) – Oriental Common Bluebottle. Another subspecies, Graphium sarpedon sirkari Page & Treadaway, 2013, was described recently. Until recently, Graphium teredon Felder & Felder, 1864 – Narrow-banded Bluebottle, was treated as a subspecies under this species. Further notes on this taxonomic change will be added here later.
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| 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 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | ||||
| Assam | 3 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 3 | |||||
| Bihar | |||||||||||||
| Chandigarh | |||||||||||||
| Chhattisgarh | |||||||||||||
| Dadra & Nagar Haveli UT | |||||||||||||
| Daman & Diu UT | |||||||||||||
| Delhi | |||||||||||||
| Goa | |||||||||||||
| Gujarat | |||||||||||||
| Haryana | |||||||||||||
| Himachal Pradesh | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Jammu and Kashmir UT | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Jharkhand | |||||||||||||
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| Kerala | |||||||||||||
| Ladakh UT | |||||||||||||
| Lakshadweep | |||||||||||||
| Madhya Pradesh | |||||||||||||
| Maharashtra | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Manipur | 2 | ||||||||||||
| Meghalaya | 5 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 3 | ||||||||
| Mizoram | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Nagaland | 3 | 2 | |||||||||||
| Odisha | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Puducherry UT | |||||||||||||
| Punjab | |||||||||||||
| Rajasthan | |||||||||||||
| Sikkim | 1 | 4 | 1 | 2 | |||||||||
| Tamil Nadu | |||||||||||||
| Tripura | |||||||||||||
| Uttar Pradesh | |||||||||||||
| Uttarakhand | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 2 | |||||||
| West Bengal | 2 | 3 | |||||||||||
| Total | 1 | 3 | 16 | 11 | 12 | 10 | 3 | 6 | 11 | 7 | 4 | 3 |
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Page citation
Anonymous 2025. Graphium sarpedon (Linnaeus, 1758) – Common 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-sarpedon, accessed 2025/10/30.