of the camphor tree, Cinnamomum camphora, which is native to China but has been naturalized throughout south-east Asia. Life cycle Egg The egg is yellowish, laid singly on the leaves of a host plant. Larva When young, is black or dark green, with numerous spines; when full grown, it is green with a short spines on each thoracic segment and anal segment. There is a transverse yellow band on the 4th segment and a lateral band on the body. The caterpillar usually lies on the centre of a leaf on an upper surface. It is very sluggish and pupates near its feeding spot. Frederic Moore quoted in Bingham, 1907, described it as: "Smooth, thickened from the second to the 5th segment and thence decreasing to the end; with two short subdorsal fleshy spines on the 4th segment, between which is a transverse pale yellow line, two shorter spines also on the 2nd and 3rd and two on the anal segment; colour green, with a longitudinal posterior lateral and lower pale yellowish line." Pupa The pupa is green with a slender and pointed thoractic projection, yellowish wing cases and lateral bands. "Conical, truncated in front; thorax produced into a lengthened obtusely-pointed frontal process." (Frederic Moore quoted in Bingham, 1907) References General reading s External links NHM Caterpillar hosts database sarpedon Butterflies of Asia Butterflies of Australia Butterflies described in 1758 Taxa named by Carl Linnaeus Butterflies of Singapore Butterflies of Indochina