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Chinese Windmill Butterfly

Byasa alcinous

About

A dark swallowtail with red-spotted hindwings that rotates its wings in a slow windmill-like pattern during flight. It is widespread in East Asian lowland forests.

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Did You Know?

Its distinctive slow, spinning flight style gives it the common name windmill butterfly.