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{{Speciesbox
| name = Krishna peacock
| image = Krishna Peacock - Alka Vaidya.jpg
| image_upright = 1.15
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| taxon = Papilio krishna
| authority = [[Frederic Moore|Moore]], 1857
}}

'''''Papilio krishna''''', the '''Krishna peacock''', is a large [[swallowtail butterfly]] found in forests in [[China]], [[Nepal]], north east [[India]], [[Myanmar]] and [[Vietnam]].

==Description==
* A large beautiful butterfly with a prominent swallowtail, the Krishna peacock has a wingspan of {{convert|120|to|130|mm|abbr=on}}
* It has black upper forewings with a thin prominent yellow discal band running across the wing, parallel to the body.
* The upper hindwing has a large blue discal patch which tapers off into a greenish yellow band from its lower edges inwards towards the dorsum. It has a series of red-mauve capped crescents (usually five).
* The upper hindwing discal band appears on the under hindwing also as a prominent curved yellow discal band.
[[File:PapilioKrishna 490 2.jpg|thumb|Male upper (left) and underside (right)]]
Resembles ''Papilio paris'' generally, but differs in many points as follows: Upperside: ground colour more of a brownish black, irrorated similarly to parti with, green scales, but the scales smaller and more sparsely spread. Forewing: the postdiscal transverse band well defined, complete, formed of white scaling with only a thin sprinkling of green scales on its inner margin, generally erect or slightly curved, rarely slightly sinuous. Hindwing: upper discal patch metallic greenish blue, smaller than in ''P. paris'', but the portions of it in interspaces 6 and 7 more extended towards the termen, the metallic golden-green band that joins the patch on its inner side to the dorsal margin more conspicuous than in ''P. paris''; the tornal ocellus as in ''P. paris'', but above it a subterminal series of claret-red lunules in interspaces 2, 3, 4 and 5, followed by a series of ochraceous-red obscure terminal narrow lunules in the interspaces, the cilia on the outer margin of each conspicuously white. Underside: forewing as in ''P. paris'' but an erect ochraceous-white postdiscal band as on the upperside limits; the series of internervular pale streaks on the outer half of the wing. Hindwing: a well-defined discal ochraceous-white band formed of a series of somewhat lunular marks in the interspaces, these increase in width anteriorly; a subterminal series of claret-red lunules traversed by violet scaling on the inner side as in ''P. paris'', but much broader and more prominent; finally a terminal series of ochraceous-yellow lunular marks in the interspaces; the cilia that border each lunule white. Antennae, head, thorax and abdomen as in ''P. paris''.<ref name="bingham">{{cite book |last1=Bingham |first1=C.T. |authorlink=Charles Thomas Bingham |title=The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma |url=https://archive.org/details/butterflies02bingiala |volume=II |edition=1st |publisher= [[Taylor & Francis|Taylor and Francis, Ltd.]] |location=London |year=1907 }}</ref>

[[Image:Papiliokrishnathawgawapr.jpg|thumb|''P. k. thawgawa'', Chudu Razi Hills, north eastern Burma]]

==Range==
Sikkim, Bhutan, Darjeeling, Nagaland, Manipur, Myanmar and all around the Himalayas.

==Status==
The [[IUCN Red Data Book]] records the status of the Krishna peacock as uncommon. It is not known to be threatened, though like all peacocks, it is highly sought in trade.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Collins |first1=N. Mark |last2=Morris |first2=Michael G. |title=Threatened Swallowtail Butterflies of the World: The IUCN Red Data Book |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/98674#page/7/mode/1up |year=1985 |publisher=[[International Union for Conservation of Nature|IUCN]] |location=Gland & Cambridge |isbn=978-2-88032-603-6 |via=Biodiversity Heritage Library}}</ref>

==Habitat==
Generally found in the forests of the Himalayas where it flies from {{convert|3000|to|9000|ft|m}}.

==Food plants==
The following food plants from family [[Rutaceae]] have been recorded:
* ''[[Evodia fraxinifolia]]''
* ''[[Citrus]]'' species
* ''[[Zanthoxylum]]'' species

==See also==
*[[Papilionidae]]
*[[List of butterflies of India]]
*[[List of butterflies of India (Papilionidae)]]

==References==
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==Other reading==
*Erich Bauer and Thomas Frankenbach, 1998 ''Schmetterlinge der Erde'', Butterflies of the World Part I (1), Papilionidae Papilionidae I: ''Papilio'', Subgenus ''Achillides'', ''Bhutanitis'', ''Teinopalpus''. Edited by Erich Bauer and Thomas Frankenbach. Keltern: Goecke & Evers; Canterbury: Hillside Books, {{ISBN|9783931374624}}
* {{cite book |last=Evans |first1=W.H. |authorlink=William Harry Evans |title=The Identification of Indian Butterflies |edition=2nd |location=Mumbai, India |publisher=[[Bombay Natural History Society]] |year=1932 }}
* {{cite book |last=Gaonkar |first=Harish |authorlink=Harish Gaonkar |title=Butterflies of the Western Ghats, India (including Sri Lanka) - A Biodiversity Assessment of a Threatened Mountain System |publisher=Centre for Ecological Sciences |location=Bangalore, India |year=1996 }}
* {{cite book |last1=Gay |first1=Thomas |last2=Kehimkar |first2=Isaac David |last3=Punetha |first3=Jagdish Chandra |title=Common Butterflies of India |series=Nature Guides |publisher= World Wide Fund for Nature-India by Oxford University Press |location=Bombay, India |year=1992 |isbn=978-0195631647 }}
* {{cite book |last=Kunte |first=Krushnamegh |title=Butterflies of Peninsular India |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cuPPjOMcu_4C |series=India, A Lifescape |location=Hyderabad, India |publisher=Universities Press |year=2000 |isbn=978-8173713545 }}
* {{cite book|last=Wynter-Blyth |first=Mark Alexander |authorlink=Mark Alexander Wynter-Blyth |title=Butterflies of the Indian Region |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yEkgAQAAMAAJ |year=1957 |location=Bombay, India |publisher=[[Bombay Natural History Society]] |isbn=978-8170192329 }}

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[[Category:Papilio|krishna]]
[[Category:Butterflies of Asia]]
[[Category:Butterflies of Indochina]]
[[Category:Butterflies described in 1857]]

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