Byasa plutonius

Pemberton's Windmill, Tytler's Windmill
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Papilionidae
Genus:	Atrophaneura
Subgenus:	Atrophaneura
Species:	A. plutonius
Binomial name
Atrophaneura plutonius Oberthür, 1907

Pemberton's Windmill, Tytler's Windmill Atrophaneura plutonius. A rare species of high elevations. Three subspecies of which two are protected in India - A. P. pembertoni, Pemberton's Chinese Windmill and A. P. tytleri, Tytler's Chinese Windmill. is a beautiful butterfly found in India that belongs to the Swallowtail family.

Range

South India, Sri Lanka, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Northern India (including Jammu & Kashmir, Sikkim and Assam), Nepal, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam, Laos, Kampuchea, peninsular Malaysia, Indonesia ( Sumatra, Kalimantan, Sulawesi), Phillippines, Papua & New Guinea, northern China (including Sinkiang and Tibet), western China (including Sichuan and Szechwan), southern China (including Hainan), Taiwan, North Korea, South Korea and Japan.

References

• Collins, N.M. & Morris, M.G. (1985) Threatened Swallowtail Butterflies of the World. IUCN. ISBN 2880326036
• Evans, W.H. (1932) The Identification of Indian Butterflies. (2nd Ed), Bombay Natural History Society, Mumbai, India
• Gaonkar, Harish (1996) Butterflies of the Western Ghats, India (including Sri Lanka) - A Biodiversity Assessment of a threatened mountain system. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society.
• Gay,Thomas; Kehimkar,Isaac & Punetha,J.C.(1992) Common Butterflies of India. WWF-India and Oxford University Press, Mumbai, India.
• Haribal, Meena (1994) Butterflies of Sikkim Himalaya and their Natural History.
• Kunte,Krushnamegh (2005) Butterflies of Peninsular India. Universities Press.
• Wynter-Blyth, M.A. (1957) Butterflies of the Indian Region, Bombay Natural History Society, Mumbai, India.

See also

• Papilionidae
• List of Butterflies of India
• List of Butterflies of India (Papilionidae)