Context: Recently, an online campaign has been started for voting India’s National Butterfly from seven species that made it are the Krishna Peacock, Common Jezebel, Orange Oakleaf, Fivebar Sword Tail, Common Nawab, Yellow Gorgon and Northern Jungle Queen.
Key Points
Krishna Peacock

• Papilio Krishna or Krishna Peacock is a large swallowtail butterfly found in forests in China, north east India, Myanmar and Vietnam.
• The IUCN Red Data Book records the status of the Krishna peacock as 'UNCOMMON'.

Common Jezebel

• The Common Jezebel butterfly belongs to the genus Delias.
• It is endemic to particular islands in south-east Asia, or restricted to certain mountain ranges, e.g. in New Guinea.
• The hyparete is distributed from India to China, the Philippines, peninsular Malaysia, Sumatra, Borneo, Java and Bali.
• The eucharis is found in India, Burma and Sri Lanka.
• It is in the category of 'NOT EVALUATED' under the IUCN category.

Orange Oakleaf

• Kallima inachus, the orange oakleaf, Indian oakleaf or dead leaf, is a nymphalid butterfly found in Tropical Asia from India to Japan.
• The orange oakleaf is found in India, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh, and Myanmar.
• In Southeast Asia it occurs in southern China, Thailand, Laos, Taiwan, and Vietnam.
• It is categorised as a Least Concern (LC) species under the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species.

Fivebar Sword Tail

• Graphium antiphates, the five-bar swordtail, is a species of papilionid butterfly found in south and Southeast Asia.
• It is categorised as a Least Concern (LC) species under the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species.

Common Nawab

• The Common Nawab (Charaxes athamas) is a species of fast-flying canopy butterfly found in tropical Asia.
• It belongs to the Charaxinae (Rajahs and Nawabs) in the brush-footed butterfly family (Nymphalidae).
• It occurs in the Himalayas from Kashmir to Sikkim, the hills of central India and the Eastern Ghats, the Western Ghats and southern India, Sri Lanka, Assam, Cachar, and via Myanmar, Cambodia and the Tenasserim Hills far into Indonesia.

Yellow Gorgon

• Meandrusa payeni, the yellow gorgon, is a species of swallowtail found in parts of South Asia and Southeast Asia.
• It belongs to the hooked swallowtails genus, Meandrusa, of the family Papilionidae.
• It is also called the outlet sword or the sickle.
• It is found in India from Sikkim to Assam, north Burma and Peninsular Malaysia.

Northern Jungle Queen

• Stichophthalma camadeva, the northern jungle queen, is a butterfly found in South Asia that belongs to the Morphinae subfamily of the brush-footed butterfly’s family.
• It ranges from Sikkim, north Bengal, Assam, Manipur, and Nagaland in India.
• It is also found in the Arakan hills and northern part of Myanmar and Thailand.