Graphium doson (Felder)

Pathania, P. C., Mangat, H. K. & Sidhu, A. K., 2018, Studies on butterfly diversity (Lepidoptera: Papilionoidea) from Punjab Agricultural University Campus, Ludhiana, Punjab, India, Records of the Zoological Survey of India 118 (1), pp. 75-90 : 82

24. Graphium doson (Felder) (Photo 25a, b)

Papilio doson Felder, 1864 , Verh. zool. bot. Ges. Wien.: 305.

Material examined: (13♂♂ 7♀♀). India: Punjab: PAU,

26.ix.2011, Birpal, Amit and P.C. Pathania (4♂ 2♀), PAU 27.ix.2012, Sunita, Kritika and P.C. Pathania (3♂ 2♀), PAU, 1.xi.2013, Avi Kumar and P.C. Pathania (4♂ 2♀), Forest field, 14.viii.2015, Sachin and P.C. Pathania (2♂ 1♀), CIPHET, 11.viii.2015, Sachin and P.C. Pathania (1♂).

Distribution: South Japan to South China and Ceylon, southwards and eastwards to the Sunda Islands. Several subspecies are known, of which three occur in the Indian area ( Talbot, 1939).

Host plant: Annona lawii , Cinnamomum macrocarpum , Magnolia grandiflora , Michelia champaca , Miliusa tomentosum , Polyalthia longifolia , Annonaceae , Lauraceae , Magnoliaceae ( Kunte, 2000) .