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Tailed Jay

Graphium agamemnon

Tailed Jay (Graphium agamemnon) photographed by Devendra Bhardwaj

Image: Devendra Bhardwaj · iNaturalist · CC BY-NC 4.0 · Jhalana Doongri, Jaipur, Rajasthan · Resized

Tailed Jay (Graphium agamemnon) photographed by Devendra Bhardwaj

Image: Devendra Bhardwaj · iNaturalist · CC BY-NC 4.0 · Vaishali Nagar, Jaipur, Rajasthan · Resized

Scientific name
Graphium agamemnon
Family
Papilionidae, order Lepidoptera
Group
Insect

Green spots on black wings, like flying stained glass.

  • Spot it Black wings with bright green spots and short tails.
  • Home Forest edges and gardens.
  • Food web Caterpillars eat custard-apple-family leaves; adults sip nectar.
  • Why it matters A fast pollinator, and its caterpillars link custard-apple-family trees to birds.

Read more: Graphium agamemnon on Wikipedia

Sources and credits

Records and field notes

  • RajasthanDevendra Bhardwaj has 5 verified records of this species on iNaturalist, between 2008 and 2020, in Jaipur.[20]

Sources

  1. Devendra Bhardwaj. iNaturalist observations and notes, with place and date (inaturalist.org/people/devendrabhardwaj) (field record). The observer's own dated records and notes, with places. Statements in his notes are his own and were not independently checked by KJVF.
  2. GBIF Backbone Taxonomy and GBIF species data (family, order, Hindi names, IUCN category) (database). Open biodiversity data. Used for classification, Hindi common names and the IUCN category where one is given.
  3. Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (opening lines of each species article, CC BY-SA 4.0). The link on each entry goes to the article (reference). Not peer reviewed. Only the opening description is used, and statements about origin or medicinal use are left out.
  4. Short introductions and key points written with AI help (Google Gemini and Claude) and checked against GBIF where possible (reference). AI-assisted text for general readers. Please check important details before relying on them.

The tag before each record shows the place it was checked for.

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