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==Distribution==

This species cacan be found in the [[Australasia ecozone]] and in the [[Indomalaya ecozone ]] ([[North-East India]], [[Southeast Asia]] and [[Australia]]).<ref>Collins, N.M., Morris, M.G. (1985) ''Threatened Swallowtail Butterflies of the World''. IUCN. ISBN 2-88032-603-6</ref>

==Description==

''Graphium eurypylus'' has a [[wingspan]] reaching about {{convert|7|-|8|cm}}. The basic colour of the uppersides of the wings is black, with a chain of yellowish or greenish spots at the edges. In the middle of the forewings there is ana large yellowish or greenish area. The undersides of the wings are similar to the uppersides, but the basic colour is brownish and the spots are paler or whitish. The hind wings have a few red spots.

Subspecies ''jason'' (South India and Sri Lanka) — Males and females. Upperside black. Fore wing : three slender, oblique, short pale green streaks in basal half of cell and two irregular small similarly-coloured spots near its apex; a discal band composed of pale green spots that gradually diminish in size anteriorly, the spot in interspace 5 the smallest, the two in the interspaces above it slightly larger; a spot at base of interspace 7 and a sinuous complete subterminal series of spots similarly coloured. Hind wing: a transverse band that extends as far as interspace 2 posteriorly and is a continuation of the discal band on the fore wing; the upper portion of this band white, the lower pale green; this is followed by a sinuous subterminal series of small pale greon spots as on the fore wing. Underside: brownish-fulvous black; markings similar, larger, their edges diffuse and all of a silvery white, slightly tinted with pale green. Hind wing in addition has a white basal streak that extends halfway down the dorsal margin; another shorter white subbasal streak from costa to the subcostal vein coalescent with the white of the discal band iu the cell, the streak of ground-colour that lies between this subbasal and the discal band jet-black, interrupted where it crosses vein 8 by a crimson spot; finally, quadrate black spots near apex of cell and at bases of interspaces 1, 2 and 3, all outwardly margined with crimson. Antenna, head, thorax and abdomen black; beneath: the palpi, thorax and abdomen touched with white, the abdomen with dingy white lateral lines. Male has an abdominal fold within grey, with a fringe of white hairs.<ref name="bingham">Bingham, C. T. (1907) Fauna of British India. Butterflies. Volume 2.</ref>