Byasa polyeuctes

Common windmill
B. p. termessus
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Papilionidae
Genus: Byasa
Species:
B. polyeuctes
Binomial name
Byasa polyeuctes
(Doubleday, 1842)
Synonyms
  • Atrophaneura polyeuctes Doubleday, 1842
  • Atrophaneura philoxenus Gray

Byasa polyeuctes, the common windmill, is the most common member in India of the windmills genus (Byasa), comprising tailed black swallowtail butterflies with white spots and red submarginal crescents.