''Graphium chironides'', the veined jay, is a species of butterfly found in Assam and other parts of Northeast India and Southeast Asia.

Description

Closely resembles in colour and in the disposition of the markings ''

Graphium eurypylus ''Graphium eurypylus'', the great jay or pale green triangle, is a species of tropical butterfly belonging to the family Papilionidae. Etymology The specific name ''eurypylus'' likely comes from the name Eurypylus, a Thessalian king who lead the ...

'', races ''jason'' and ''axion'' more especially the latter, but on the upperside the anterior markings are all strongly tinged with yellow and the spots or patches that compose the discal band on both forewing and hindwing are well separated one from the other; on the hindwing, moreover, the apical spot of the subterminal series is invariably white, not pale green like the other spots of the series, and is very often elongate and diffuse. Underside: forewing very similar to that of ''axion''. Hindwing: with the following silvery white markings: a moderately broad basal band reaches from costa across the wing and along the dorsum to the tornal angle, broad elongate streaks in the cell and in interspaces 2 and 3, a small spot at base of interspace 4, an inwardly conical larger elongate spot at base of 6, a very large quadrate spot in 7, and an elongate spot like that in 6 in interspace but outwardly not inwardly conical, interior to the two latter spots are two broad lunular spots in interspaces 7 and 8; all the anteriorly basal markings are strongly tinged with silky yellow; on the outer half of the wing there is a postdiscal series of orange yellow and a subterminal complete series of silvery-white spots, the upper two of which have further short narrow similarly-coloured streaks below them in the interspaces. Antennae head and thorax black, the thorax with dark greyish pubescence, abdomen brownish black; beneath and the abdomen laterally marked and streaked with white.

Subspecies

*''G. c. chironides'' (southern Yunnan, Assam) *''G. c. clanis'' (Jordan, 1909) *''G. c. malayanum'' Eliot, 1982 (Malaysia) *''G. c. chironides punctatus'' Page & Treadaway 2014 (Laos and southern Thailand) Malcolm G. P. Page & Colin G. Treadaway , 2013 Revisional notes on the ''Arisbe eurypylus'' species group (Lepidoptera: Papilionoidea: Papilionidae) ''Stuttgarter Beiträge zur Naturkunde'' A, Neue Serie 7: 253–284; Stuttgart, 30.IV.2014. 25
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Taxonomy

Synonym of ''Graphium chiron'' (Wallace, 1865). Formerly regarded as a subspecies of ''

Graphium bathycles ''Graphium bathycles'', the veined jay, is a butterfly in the family Papilionidae, that is found in the Indomalayan realm. Subspecies *''Graphium bathycles bathycles'' (nominate: Java; undifferentiated: China, Sikkim to Assam, Burma) *''Graphium ...

'' but raised to specific level by Saigusa et al.

References

Butterflies described in 1884 chironides Butterflies of Indochina {{Papilionidae-stub