Papilio buddha
| Malabar Banded Peacock | |
|---|---|
| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Papilionidae |
| Genus: | Papilio |
| Species: | P. buddha |
| Binomial name | |
| Papilio buddha Westwood, 1872 | |
Papilio buddha, the Malabar banded peacock, is a species of swallowtail butterfly found in the Western Ghats of India. The Government of Kerala declared it as the official Kerala state butterfly. Papilio buddha is a threatened species and one of the species considered in a 2023 molecular phylogeny study of the Papilio genus, with the study concluding that it forms part of the Old World clade that existed around 30 million years ago in the Oligocene.