Subspecies in India
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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This species is distributed throughout the Indo-Australian Region. It occurs across India, except in the arid NW and at elevations above 2,000 m.
| State | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | No date |
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| Andaman and Nicobar Islands UT | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||
| Andhra Pradesh | 1 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 1 | |||||
| Arunachal Pradesh | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Assam | 1 | 2 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 7 | 1 | 8 | 1 | ||||
| Bihar | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
| Chandigarh | |||||||||||||
| Chhattisgarh | 2 | 4 | 3 | 8 | 7 | 28 | 11 | 9 | 9 | 11 | 1 | ||
| Dadra & Nagar Haveli UT | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Daman & Diu UT | |||||||||||||
| Delhi | 2 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 12 | 4 | 1 | ||||
| Goa | |||||||||||||
| Gujarat | 6 | 15 | 4 | 14 | 2 | 9 | 1 | ||||||
| Haryana | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
| Himachal Pradesh | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Jammu and Kashmir UT | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||||||||
| Jharkhand | |||||||||||||
| Karnataka | 3 | 3 | 13 | 10 | 26 | 48 | 18 | 12 | 13 | 12 | 16 | 6 | |
| Kerala | 3 | 3 | 17 | 5 | 12 | 6 | 3 | 5 | 8 | 4 | 1 | ||
| Ladakh UT | |||||||||||||
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| Madhya Pradesh | 1 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 14 | 4 | 2 | 1 | |||||
| Maharashtra | 13 | 25 | 14 | 36 | 42 | 58 | 26 | 24 | 25 | 45 | 14 | 14 | |
| Manipur | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
| Meghalaya | |||||||||||||
| Mizoram | |||||||||||||
| Nagaland | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
| Odisha | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
| Puducherry UT | |||||||||||||
| Punjab | 1 | 2 | |||||||||||
| Rajasthan | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | |||||||||
| Sikkim | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
| Tamil Nadu | 1 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 14 | 3 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | |||
| Tripura | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
| Uttar Pradesh | 1 | 8 | 7 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 6 | |||||
| Uttarakhand | 4 | 4 | 8 | 2 | |||||||||
| West Bengal | 5 | 2 | 3 | 8 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 9 | 5 | 7 | 5 | |
| Total | 28 | 36 | 38 | 97 | 107 | 168 | 115 | 93 | 120 | 104 | 82 | 36 |
Cullen corylifolium (=Psoralea corylifolia) (Fabaceae). Tilia spp. (Malvaceae). Ziziphus spp., Ziziphus mauritiana (Rhamnaceae). Acronychia pedunculata, Aegle spp., Aegle marmelos, Chloroxylon swietenia, Citrus spp., Citrus aurantiifolia, Citrus aurantium (=Citrus reticulata), Citrus limon, Citrus maxima, Citrus medica, Clausena anisata (=Clausena dentata), Glycosmis pentaphylla, Limonia acidissima, Murraya spp., Murraya koenigii (=Bergera koenigii), Ruta angustifolia, Ruta graveolens, Toddalia trifoliata (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
Saji, K., H. Ogale, A. Bora, Manoj P., D. Sawant, A. D. Nair 2025. Papilio demoleus Linnaeus, 1758 – Lime Swallowtail. 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-demoleus, accessed 2025/05/17.