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Tailed Jay

Graphium agamemnon

Easily confused with

Study checks a spoken answer against these, and tells you which one you named.

Where it is recorded

Records by month in India.January 171, February 111, March 116, April 301, May 263, June 293, July 295, August 350, September 681, October 313, November 249, December 249.
India3,392
China1,612
Kerala1,025
Hong Kong Special Administrative Region1,020
Mahārāshtra1,013
Indonesia743
Singapore577
Karnātaka478
Thailand340
Malaysia329

Counts show where people looked, not only where it lives.

Traits

Physical

  • MetamorphosisUndergoes dramatic body transformation during developmentFrom its classification
  • ExoskeletonHas a hard external skeletonFrom its classification

Group and habits

  • Animal pollinatorDescends from an animal lineage whose members commonly pollinate flowers.Inferred from its group

Classification

KingdomAnimals · Animalia
PhylumArthropods · Arthropoda
ClassInsects · Insecta
OrderButterflies and Moths · Lepidoptera
FamilySwallowtails and Parnassians · Papilionidae
GenusSwordtails, Jays, Bluebottles and allies · Graphium

Sources

Remember the name next time.

Practise Tailed Jay with real photos from different observers. Say the name out loud, and it comes back just before you would forget it.