2008 Indian Stamps : Endemic Butterflies Of Andaman

The male Andaman Mormon resembles Blue Mormon Papilio polymnestor.

The female Andaman Mormon resembles the female form alcanor of the Great Mormon Papilio memnon and is a mimic of the Andaman Clubtail Atrophaneura (Losaria) rhodifer Atkinson. Male upperside rich velvety black. Fore wing with a subrerminnal series of greenish-yellow irrorated internervular streaks, sometimes more or less obsolescent. Hind wing: a very broad discal band pale blue, composed of broad outwardly more or less emarginate streaks in interspaces 1 to 7; cilia: fore wing black, hind wing black alternated with white in the interspaces. Underside opaque blue-black. Fore wing with a dark red streak at base and the subterminal internervular streaks as on the upperside but grey and more prominent. Hind wing with 4 or 5 small patches of dark red at base, a complete dark red ocellus in interspaces 1 and 2, and indistinct subterminal very variable markings of red in the other interspaces, sometimes formed into half ocelli in interspaces 3 and 4; within this line of markings there is an incomplete discal lunular series of mixed red and blue scaling. Antennae, head, thorax and abdomen black.— Female closely resembles the tailed form of the Female of Papilio memnon race agenor, but on the disc of the fore wing the internervular broad pale streaks are nearly white, and on the hind wing the white streaks in the interspaces beyond and outside the cell shorter and strongly tinged with red along their edges, while the dark red is more extended, especially in the tornal area where it covers the terminal three-fourths of interspaces 1 and 2, interrupted in 1 by a comparatively round oval black spot and in 2 by a broad elongate black patch ; apical half of tail vermilion-red, whitish at apex