Losaria doubledayi

Losaria doubledayi
Upperside
Underside
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Papilionidae
Subfamily:	Papilioninae
Tribe:	Troidini
Genus:	Losaria
Species:	L. doubledayi
Binomial name
Losaria doubledayi Wallace, 1865

Losaria doubledayi, the red-marked clubtail, is a butterfly in the family Papilionidae. It is found from North-east India to the Malay Peninsula. ^{[1] [2] [3]}

Description

The upperside is similar to Losaria coon , but the base is darker. The underside is broader than coon and has the white spot in the cell toothed below. The rings on the abdomen are red instead of yellow, hence giving its common name. ^{[4] [5]}

Subspecies

There are six recognized subspecies -

• Losaria doubledayi cacharensis(Butler, 1885) - Northeast India
• Losaria doubledayi putaoa(Tytler, 1939) - North Myanmar
• Losaria doubledayi sambilanga(Doherty, 1886) - Nicobar Islands
• Losaria doubledayi delianus(Fruhstorfer, 1895) - Sumatra
• Losaria doubledayi doubledayi(Wallace, 1865) - Southeast Asia
• Losaria doubledayi insperatus(Joicey and Talbot, 1921) - Hainan

References

1. "Atrophaneura". www.nic.funet.fi. Retrieved 2026-01-25.
2. "Red Marked Clubtail (Losaria doubledayi)". iNaturalist. Retrieved 2026-01-25.
3. "(PDF) Are the Yellow and Red Marked Club-Tail Losaria coon the Same Species?". ResearchGate. Archived from the original on 2021-12-26. Retrieved 2026-01-25.
4. Wallace, Alfred Russel (1865). On the phenomena of variation and geographical distribution as illustrated by the Papilionidae of the Malayan region. Read March 17, 1864. Smithsonian Libraries.
5. Bombay Natural History Society (1886). Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society. Smithsonian Libraries. Bombay, Bombay Natural History Society.