The Redbreast (Papilio alcmenor) is a species of swallowtail butterfly found in South Asia.
Male upperside black with, in some lights, an obscure dark indigo-blue tint. Fore wing: a series of pale adnervular streaks not extended to the base or quite to the termen but that reach well into the apical half of the cell, and a short slender streak of red rarely absent at the extreme base of the subcostal vein.
In certain specimens also the apical half or interspace 1a and of the posterior portion of interspace 1 are diffusely white. Hind wing uniform, towards the terminal or outer half sprinkled with bluish scales ; an irregular incomplete white ring at the tornal angle that encloses a black spot bordered above by red.
Male upperside black with, in some lights, an obscure dark indigo-blue tint. Fore wing: a series of pale adnervular streaks not extended to the base or quite to the termen but that reach well into the apical half of the cell, and a short slender streak of red rarely absent at the extreme base of the subcostal vein.
In certain specimens also the apical half or interspace 1a and of the posterior portion of interspace 1 are diffusely white. Hind wing uniform, towards the terminal or outer half sprinkled with bluish scales ; an irregular incomplete white ring at the tornal angle that encloses a black spot bordered above by red.
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