minos (Cramer, [1779]) Golden birdwing, Troides aeacus (C. Felder & R. Felder, 1860) Red-bodied swallowtails The genera Losaria, Pachliopta and Byasa of the Indian Troidini are commonly called as the red-bodied swallowtails along with the Atrophaneura. They were formerly considered to be subgenera under genus Atrophaneura till several authorities elevated them to genus level in their publications (e.g. LepIndex; GLoBIS; Racheli & Cotton (2010)). These butterflies sequester toxins from plants and are inedible or poisonous to predators. They also have warning colouration, a phenomenon also known as aposematism. The red-bodied swallowtails are involved in Batesian mimicry complexes as aposematic models which are mimicked by edible species. Atrophaneura Reakirt, [1865] – batwings Red-bodied swallowtails with black wings hat are found in low elevation forests along the Himalayas and the Northeast of India. Lesser batwing, Atrophaneura aidoneus (Doubleday, 1845) Common batwing, Atrophaneura varuna (A. White, 1842) Byasa Moore, 1882 – windmills Black-coloured red-bodied swallowtails with elongated wings, prominent white and red spots, and tails that are found in low elevation forests along the Himalayas and the Northeast of India. Common windmill, Byasa polyeuctes (Doubleday, 1842) Rose windmill, Byasa latreillei (Donovan, 1826) Neville's windmill, Byasa nevilli (Wood-Mason, 1882) De Nicéville's windmill, Byasa polla (de Nicéville, 1897) Great windmill, Byasa dasarada (Moore, 1858) Black windmill, Byasa crassipes (Oberthür, 1893) Chinese windmill, Byasa plutonius (Oberthür, 1876) Losaria Moore, 1902 – clubtails Red-bodied swallowtails with club-shaped tails that are found in low elevation forests along the Himalayas and the Northeast of India. Common clubtail, earlier Losaria coon (Fabricius, 1793) now Losaria doubledayi (Wallace, 1885) Andaman clubtail, Losaria rhodifer (Butler, 1876) Pachliopta Reakirt, [1865] – roses Red-bodied swallowtails commonly found all over India (except for the endemic Malabar rose), which serve as aposematic models for Papilio polytes in Batesian mimicry complex. Common rose, Pachliopta aristolochiae (Fabricius, 1775) Crimson rose, Pachliopta hector (Linnaeus, 1758) Malabar rose, Pachliopta pandiyana (Moore, 1881) Tribe Papilionini Papilio Linnaeus, 1758 – swallowtails Black-bodied swallowtails, often distinctively marked, some widely distributed, which are edible and form Batesian mimicry complexes with danaines or red-bodied swallowtails. Some species are polymorphic, mostly in the female forms. Papilio (Chilasa) – mimes Medium-sized tailless swallowtail butterflies which mimic the milkweed butterflies, which they fly alongside, both in appearance and methods of flight. Except for the Common Mime which is also found in peninsular India, they are confined to the lower Himalayas and Northeast India. Tawny mime, Papilio agestor Gray,