Papilio paris eyespots. Wingspan: 106–132 mm The Himalayas from Kumaon to Sikkim, Nepal and Bhutan; the hills of Assam, Burma and Tenasserim, extending to Thailand and the Malay Peninsula. A common insect in Sikkim, where it is found from the Terai up to . It is rare in Burma and Tenasserim. It also occurs in some parts of the Western Ghats in India. Papilio paris Papilio paris, the Paris peacock, is a species of swallowtail butterfly found in the Indian subcontinent and southeast Asia. Upperwings are black and irrorated (sprinkled) with dark green scales, which on the outer portion of the forewing
Swallowtail butterfly for protection from predators. Swallowtail tribes Zerynthiini (Parnassiinae), Luehdorfiini (Parnassiinae) and Troidini (Papilioninae), almost exclusively use the family Aristolochiaceae as their host plants. For example, the eastern black swallowtail's main host plant in the wild is Queen Anne's lace, but they also eat garden plants in the carrot family, including carrots, parsley, dill, and fennel. Adult swallowtails sip nectar, but also mud and sometimes manure. The detailed descriptions of morphological characteristics of the Papilionidae, as quoted in Bingham (1905) are as follows: Stages of development of a papilionid, the giant swallowtail ("Papilio cresphontes") The key characteristics that differentiate the Papilionidae