Graphium doson
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{{Taxobox
| name = Common Jay
| image = RN017 Graphium doson.jpg
| image_width = 240px
| status = secure
| regnum = [[Animal]]ia
| phylum = [[Arthropod]]a
| classis = [[Insect]]a
| ordo = [[Lepidoptera]]
| familia = [[Papilionidae]]
| genus = ''[[Graphium]]''
| species = '''''G. doson'''''
| binomial = ''Graphium doson''
| binomial_authority = [[Cajetan Freiherr von Felder|C&R Felder]], [[1864]]
}}
[[Image:Common Blue Bottle I IMG 8906.jpg|left|thumb|Mud-puddling in [[Kolkata]], [[West Bengal]], [[India]].]]
The '''Common Jay''' (''Graphium doson'') is a black, tropical [[swallowtail butterfly|papilionid]] [[butterfly]] with pale blue semi-transparent central wing bands that are formed by large spots. There is a marginal series of smaller spots. The underside of wings is brown with markings similar to upperside but whitish in color. The sexes look alike.
==Range==
It is widespread and common throughout [[Southeast Asia]], including lower elevations in [[Sri Lanka]] and Southern [[India]], [[Eastern Ghats]], [[Satpuras]], [[Bengal]] and Assam, and the [[Himalaya|Himalayan]] foothills. The species is however scarce in southern [[Honshū]], [[Japan]].
==Habitat==
Common in thick, riparian, moist, deciduous, semi-evergreen and evergreen forests.
==Habits==
The Common Jay is active throughout the day and constantly on the move; it rarely settles down. Its flight is swift and straight.
==Life cycle==
===Eggs===
[[Image:Commonjay egg sec.jpg|thumb|left|Egg]]
The spherical and pale yellow eggs are laid singly on the underside of leaves.
===Larva===
[[Image:Commonjay_cat_sec1.jpg|thumb|Caterpillar]]
The [[caterpillar]] is somewhat spindle-shaped. The grown caterpillars have two forms, dark brown or grassy green. There are spines on the 4th segment which are short, conicle and blue-centered surrounded by lemmon yellow and then black rings. The osmeterium is pale bluish green. It is extruded only reluctantly.
===Pupa===
[[Image:Commonjay_pupa_sec.jpg|thumb|left|Pupa]]
The [[pupa]] is pale green with a dark purplish median line from the head to the [[thoracic horn]] and a yellow line from the tip of the horn to the [[cremaster]].
==Foodplants==
The caterpillars feed on plants of the families [[Annonaceae]], [[Lauraceae]], [[Magnoliaceae]] such as ''[[Annona lawii]]'', ''[[Cinnamomum macrocarpum]]'', ''[[Magnolia grandiflora]]'', ''[[Michelia champaca]]'', ''[[Milliusa tomentosum]]'' and ''[[Polyalthia longifolia]]''.
==References==
* [[W. H. Evans | Evans, W.H.]] (1932) The Identification of Indian Butterflies. (2nd Ed), [[BNHS|Bombay Natural History Society]], Mumbai, India
* Kunte,Krushnamegh (2005) Butterflies of Peninsular India. Universities Press.
* Wynter-Blyth, M.A. (1957) Butterflies of the Indian Region, [[BNHS|Bombay Natural History Society]], Mumbai, India.
==Gallery==
<gallery>
Image:Commonjay cat sec.jpg|Caterpillar
Image:Commonjay adup sec.jpg |adult
Image:Common Jay (Graphium doson) in Hyderabad, AP W 181.jpg| in [[Hyderabad, India]].
Image:DSC 1152.NEF.jpg
Image:Common Blue Bottle I IMG 8940.jpg|in [[Kolkata]], [[West Bengal]], [[India]].
Image:Common Blue Bottle2.jpg|at Hyderabad, India
Image:RN018 Dead Butterflies.jpg|Photo of dead Common Jay with upper forewing visible
Image:Doson u copy.jpg|Underside of wing from Seitz Macrolepidoptera
</gallery>
==See also==
*[[Papilionidae]]
*[[List of butterflies of India|List of Butterflies of India]]
*[[List of Butterflies of India (Papilionidae)]]
[[Category:Graphium]]
[[Category:Butterflies of India]]
[[Category:Natural monuments of Japan]]
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