Beautiful common mime papilio clytia butterfly.

Papilio clytia, the common mime,[1][2] is a swallowtail butterfly found in south and southeast Asia.[1][2] The butterfly belongs to the subgenus Chilasa, the black-bodied swallowtails. It serves as an excellent example of a Batesian mimic among the Indian butterflies.Both males and females have the upperside velvety black or soft dark brown.nnForewing: a subterminal series of outwardly truncate or emarginate white spots; the spot in interspace 4 shifted inwards out of line; those in interspaces 6, 7 and 8 oblique to the costa, the lowest and the upper two spots elongate; this is followed by a terminal series of smaller white spots, two in interspace 1, one above the outer, and two in interspaces 8; lastly, a single spot between the subterminal and terminal series.

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