Subspecies in India
(1) Graphium doson eleius (Fruhstorfer, 1907) – Dakhan Common Jay
(2) Graphium doson axionides (Page & Treadaway, 2014) – Himalayan Common Jay
Graphium doson axionides Page & Treadaway, 2014 is a replacement name for axion Felder & Felder, which is a junior primary homonym of Papilio axion Boisduval, 1832.
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 Andhra Pradesh, Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Chandigarh, Chhattisgarh, Delhi NCR, Goa, Gujarat, Karnataka, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Odisha, Punjab, Rajasthan, Tamil Nadu, Telangana, Tripura, Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, and West Bengal, 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 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | |||||||
| Arunachal Pradesh | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
| Assam | 3 | 4 | 6 | 1 | 2 | ||||||||
| Bihar | |||||||||||||
| Chandigarh | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Chhattisgarh | 1 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 1 | ||||
| Dadra & Nagar Haveli UT | |||||||||||||
| Daman & Diu UT | |||||||||||||
| Delhi | 1 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 15 | 4 | ||||||
| Goa | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
| Gujarat | 5 | 2 | 8 | 17 | 13 | 11 | 5 | ||||||
| Haryana | |||||||||||||
| Himachal Pradesh | |||||||||||||
| Jammu and Kashmir UT | |||||||||||||
| Jharkhand | |||||||||||||
| Karnataka | 3 | 11 | 7 | 25 | 6 | 8 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 2 | |
| Kerala | 2 | 7 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||||||
| Ladakh UT | |||||||||||||
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| Madhya Pradesh | 2 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 1 | |||||||
| Maharashtra | 12 | 17 | 11 | 19 | 3 | 10 | 7 | 23 | 18 | 16 | 12 | 15 | |
| Manipur | |||||||||||||
| Meghalaya | 6 | 1 | |||||||||||
| Mizoram | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Nagaland | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Odisha | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
| Puducherry UT | |||||||||||||
| Punjab | 2 | 2 | 1 | ||||||||||
| Rajasthan | 1 | 2 | |||||||||||
| Sikkim | |||||||||||||
| Tamil Nadu | 1 | 1 | 8 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 1 | |||||
| Telangana | 3 | 2 | |||||||||||
| Tripura | 2 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
| Uttar Pradesh | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | ||||||||
| Uttarakhand | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | |||||||||
| West Bengal | 1 | 2 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 6 | 1 | 2 | |||
| Total | 18 | 30 | 31 | 84 | 49 | 34 | 28 | 55 | 73 | 53 | 33 | 25 |
Annona glabra, Annona muricata, Miliusa tomentosa, Monoon longifolium (=Polyalthia longifolia), Polyalthia spp. (Annonaceae). Hunteria zeylanica, Trachelospermum asiaticum (Apocynaceae). Cinnamomum spp., Cinnamomum macrocarpum, Cinnamomum malabathrum (Lauraceae). Magnolia champaca (=Michelia champaca), Magnolia grandiflora, Magnolia liliifera, Magnolia oblonga (Magnoliaceae).
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
Saji K, S. Tadse, and K. Kunte. 2026. Graphium doson (C. & R. Felder, 1864) – Common Jay. 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/index.php/graphium-doson, accessed 2026/05/24.