Papilio paradoxus Race telearchus = great blue mime (Papilio paradoxa)

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Subject:	Papilio paradoxus Race telearchus = great blue mime (Papilio paradoxa)
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Papilio paradoxa telearchus =
Date between 1903 and 1905
Source Lepidoptera Indica. Volume 6
Author J N Fitch / John Nugent Fitch (art); Frederic C Moore (text)
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Papilio_paradoxa_telearchus_511.png

The great blue mime (Papilio paradoxa) is a swallowtail butterfly found in India and parts of South-East Asia. The butterfly belongs to the mime subgenus, Chilasa, of the genus Papilio (black-bodied swallowtails). It is an excellent mimic of different species of Euploea (sub-family Danainae). The typical form of the great blue mime mimics the striped blue crow (Euploea mulciber) in both sexes. There also occurs in India a form danisepa which mimics the magpie crow (Euploea radamanthus). Though the great mimes are easily distinguished when caught, in flight they very closely resemble the mimicked butterflies.

Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Papilionidae
Genus: Papilio
Species: Papilio paradoxa Zincken, 1831
Synonyms: Chilasa paradoxus

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