The Great Helen, Papilio (Princeps) iswara iswara (White)

This butterfly is umistakable with its impressive size in flight. More common in the hills and deeply wooded areas. It can be differentiated from P. helenus by the blue spots on the HW undersides.

Habitat indicator

RSP	WV	PG	VF	FTR	SC	LWDF	LWPF	LMEF	UMN	MN
						x	x	x	x

Frequency observation chart: (S marks the usual occurences, H marks an unusually high occurence, F for first record)

2013
Mac	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct
	S3	H	S3

2013		2014
Nov	Dec	Jan	Feb	Mac	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct
		S2			S2S3	H	S2S3	S2	S2	S2	S2

2014

2015

Nov

Dec

Jan

Feb

Mac

Apr

May

June

Jul

Aug

Sep

Oct

Nov

Dec

S2

S2

S2

S2

S2

S2

S2

2016
Jan	Feb	Mac	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
		S2			S2	S2(H)

2017
Jan	Feb	Mac	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
				S2	S2	S2	S2	S2	S2S3

2018
Jan	Feb	Mac	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec

2019
Jan	Feb	Mac	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
				S2

2020
Jan	Feb	Mac	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
	S1

2021
Jan	Feb	Mac	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec

2022
Jan	Feb	Mac	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec

Photo of the upperside indicates that this is a male specimen as it lacks 2 red spots on the hind wings.

All photos are taken on 20 April 2013 @ 14:28

Photo of a seemingly female specimen taken in June 2011(observe the two red ocelli on its hindwings.

Impressive contrast of colours and forms

Above photos taken on 28 May 2013 @ noon,

A gaggle of Helens...

Above 3 photos 05 Jan 2014 @ 14:26

13 May 2014@ 12:15

01 June 2014 @ 11:18

04 June 2014 @ 11:50

21 June 2014 @ 12:03

 12:13

12:14

Above photos 17 July 2016

23 July 2016 @ 13:12

Females have 2 large red bordered occelli on the tornal area of the hindwing: 23 Sept 2017 @ 11:41

11 May 2019 @ 13:33

08 Feb 2020 @ 12:49