Subspecies in India
(1) Papilio paris paris Linnaeus, 1758 – Chinese Paris Peacock
(2) Papilio paris tamilana Moore, 1881 – Sahyadri Paris Peacock (=Tamil Peacock)
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 |
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| Andaman and Nicobar Islands UT | |||||||||||||
| Andhra Pradesh | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Arunachal Pradesh | 2 | 2 | 8 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 1 | 3 | ||||
| Assam | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||
| Bihar | |||||||||||||
| Chandigarh | |||||||||||||
| Chhattisgarh | |||||||||||||
| Dadra & Nagar Haveli UT | |||||||||||||
| Daman & Diu UT | |||||||||||||
| Delhi | |||||||||||||
| Goa | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Gujarat | |||||||||||||
| Haryana | |||||||||||||
| Himachal Pradesh | |||||||||||||
| Jammu and Kashmir UT | |||||||||||||
| Jharkhand | |||||||||||||
| Karnataka | 2 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 7 | 10 | |||||||
| Kerala | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 38 | 2 | |||||
| Ladakh UT | |||||||||||||
| Lakshadweep | |||||||||||||
| Madhya Pradesh | |||||||||||||
| Maharashtra | 1 | 3 | 1 | ||||||||||
| Manipur | 1 | 2 | |||||||||||
| Meghalaya | 1 | 2 | 5 | ||||||||||
| Mizoram | 2 | 1 | |||||||||||
| Nagaland | 1 | 1 | 2 | ||||||||||
| Odisha | |||||||||||||
| Puducherry UT | |||||||||||||
| Punjab | |||||||||||||
| Rajasthan | |||||||||||||
| Sikkim | 3 | 5 | 6 | 2 | |||||||||
| Tamil Nadu | |||||||||||||
| Tripura | |||||||||||||
| Uttar Pradesh | |||||||||||||
| Uttarakhand | 1 | ||||||||||||
| West Bengal | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | |||||||
| Total | 1 | 2 | 9 | 8 | 15 | 9 | 12 | 11 | 28 | 63 | 5 | 1 |
Citrus spp., Citrus medica, Melicope lunu-ankenda, Toddalia asiatica, Zanthoxylum ovalifolium, Zanthoxylum oxyphyllum (Rutaceae).
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. Papilio paris Linnaeus, 1758 – Paris Peacock. 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/papilio-paris, accessed 2025/10/30.