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{{distinguish|Blue jay}}
{{Short description|Species of butterfly}}
{{Speciesbox
| name = Blue jay
| image = GraphiumEvemonEventusMUpUnAC1.jpg
| image_caption = ''Graphium evemon eventus''
| image2 = 012824349 Arisbe evemon lebar Page & Treadaway 2011 PT.jpg
| image2_caption = ''Graphium evemon lebar''
| genus = Graphium (butterfly)
| species = evemon
| authority = [[Jean Baptiste Boisduval|Boisduval]], 1836
| synonyms = {{Species list
  |Papilio evemon|Fruhstorfer, 1901
  |Arisbe evemon|Page & Treadaway, 2011 <ref>Malcolm G. P. Page & Colin G. Treadaway, 2013 Revisional notes on the ''Arisbe eurypylus'' species group (Lepidoptera: Papilionoidea: Papilionidae) ''Stuttgarter Beiträge zur Naturkunde'' A, Neue Serie 7: 253–284; Stuttgart, 30.IV.2014. 253 [https://www.naturkundemuseum-bw.de/sites/default/files/publikationen/serie-a/ans07-13.pdf pdf]</ref>
  }}
| synonyms_ref = <ref>{{cite web|title=Graphium evemon - Synonyms - Encyclopedia of Life|url=http://eol.org/pages/130903/names/synonyms|website=Encyclopedia of Life|accessdate=24 January 2017|language=en}}</ref>
}}

'''''Graphium evemon''''', the '''blue jay''', '''lesser jay,''' or '''pale green triangle''' is a [[species]] of tropical [[butterfly]] found in [[India]], [[Indonesia]], and [[Malaysia]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Collins |first1=N. Mark |last2=Morris |first2=Michael G. |title=Threatened Swallowtail Butterflies of the World: The IUCN Red Data Book |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/98674#page/7/mode/1up |year=1985 |publisher=[[International Union for Conservation of Nature|IUCN]] |location=Gland & Cambridge |isbn=978-2-88032-603-6 |via=Biodiversity Heritage Library}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://eol.org/pages/130903/maps|title=Graphium evemon - Maps - Encyclopedia of Life|last=|first=|date=|website=Encyclopedia of Life|publisher=|language=en|access-date=24 January 2017}}</ref>

Very similar to ''[[Graphium eurypylus]]'', ''evemon'' is nevertheless an independent species. The scent-wool of the male always forms a narrow stripe hidden in the fold, the upperside of the abdomen is also never dusted with white in large males, the last submarginal spot of the forewing above is absent or at most weakly indicated and the harpe of the male genitalia is always recognisable by the long and more basally placed ventral process; moreover, in Malayan specimens the red costal spot on the under surface of the hindwing is always absent. The female is similar to the male.
[[Karl Jordan (zoologist, born 1861)|Karl Jordan]] in Seitz ( pages 97, 98) provides a description differentiating ''evemon '' from nearby taxa and dilineates the then known subspecies.
<ref>[[Adalbert Seitz|Seitz]], A. Band 9: Abt. 2, Die exotischen Großschmetterlinge, Die indo-australischen Tagfalter, 1927, 1197 Seiten 177 Tafeln {{PD-notice}}</ref>

[https://www.gbif.org/occurrence/3322959257 Images of evemon and similar species]

==Subspecies==
*''G. e. evemon'' Java
*''G. e. albociliatis''  <small>(Fruhstorfer, 1901) </small> (Assam - North Laos, North Vietnam)
*''G. e. igneolus'' <small>(Fruhstorfer, 1901)</small>  (Nias)
*''G. e. eventus'' <small>(Fruhstorfer, 1908) </small>  (South Burma, Thailand, Peninsular Malaya, Langkawi Island, Sumatra, Banka, Borneo)
*''G. e. orithia'' <small> Jordan, 1909 </small>  (Philippines (Mapun))
*''G. e. hetaerias''<small> (Jordan, 1937) </small> (Siberut)
*''G. evemon lebar ''<small>(Page & Treadaway 2011) </small>  Karimati Island, Indonesia <ref>Malcolm G. P. Page  and Colin G. Treadaway, 2011 New subspecies of Papilionidae from South-east Asia (Lepidoptera: Papilionidae) ''Nachr. entomol. Ver. Apollo'', N.F. 31 (4): 201–205 (2011) [https://www.zobodat.at/pdf/NEVA_31_0201-0205.pdf pdf]</ref>

==See also==
{{commons category|Graphium evemon}}
{{Wikispecies|Graphium evemon}}
*[[Papilionidae]]
*[[List of butterflies of India]]
*[[List of butterflies of India (Papilionidae)]]

==References==
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[[Category:Graphium (butterfly)|evemon]]
[[Category:Taxa named by Jean Baptiste Boisduval]]
[[Category:Butterflies of Indochina]]
[[Category:Butterflies described in 1836]]
[[Category:Butterflies of Malaysia]]
[[Category:Butterflies of Borneo]]
[[Category:Butterflies of Java]]
[[Category:Fauna of Sumatra]]
[[Category:Lepidoptera of the Philippines]]


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