Subspecies in India
Conservation and Special status
This species is not legally protected in India under any schedules of WildLife (Protection) Act, 1972.
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This species has so far been recorded from Andhra Pradesh, Goa, Karnataka, Kerala, Maharashtra and Tamil Nadu within Indian Limits.
| State | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | No date |
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| Arunachal Pradesh | |||||||||||||
| Assam | |||||||||||||
| Bihar | |||||||||||||
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| 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 | 7 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 10 | 3 | 4 | ||
| Kerala | 3 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 16 | 7 | 4 | 10 | |||
| Ladakh UT | |||||||||||||
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| Madhya Pradesh | |||||||||||||
| Maharashtra | 8 | 5 | 3 | 10 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 6 | 21 | ||
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| Sikkim | |||||||||||||
| Tamil Nadu | 2 | 2 | 1 | ||||||||||
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| Uttarakhand | |||||||||||||
| West Bengal | |||||||||||||
| Total | 12 | 10 | 10 | 15 | 11 | 4 | 7 | 8 | 23 | 22 | 14 | 36 |
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.
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.
For the complete list of larval host plants of Indian butterflies, see the page on larval host plants.
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Page citation
Anonymous 2025. 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/index.php/graphium-teredon, accessed 2025/11/04.