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==Description==

[[File:Common bluebottle, Keitakuen, Osaka.jpg|thumb|Common bluebottle at Keitakuen]]

[[File:Graphium sarpedon - kanagawa - slow motion - 2023 may 3.webm|thumb|Slow motion video of a common bluebottle in [[Kanagawa Prefecture|Kanagawa]], [[Japan]]]]

{{Lepidopteran glossary hatnote}}

Upperside opaque black. Forewings and hindwings crossed from above the tornal area on the hindwing to near the apex of the forewing by a semi-[[hyaline]] broad pale blue medial band which is broadest in the middle, more or less greenish and macular anteriorly; the portion of the band that crosses interspaces 6, 7 and 8 on the hindwing white; beyond the band on the hindwing there is a sub-terminal line of blue slender lunules. Underside similar, ground colour dark brown. Hindwing: a short comparatively broad sub-basal band from costa to sub-costal vein, and the postdiscal area between the medial blue band and the sub-terminal lunules velvety black traversed by the pale veins and transversely, except in interspaces 6 and 7, by narrow crimson lines; lastly, a crimson spot near the tornal angle with an admarginal yellowish-white spot below it. Antenna, head, thorax and abdomen brown, the head and thorax suffused with greenish grey; beneath: the palpi, thorax and abdomen touched with dingy white, the abdomen with two whitish lateral lines.