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title: "Common Bluebottle"
description: "Graphium sarpedon — Insecten en spinnen. Graphium sarpedon, the common bluebottle is a species of swallowtail butterfly that is found in East, South and Southeast Asia."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/nl/animal/common-bluebottle
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Common Bluebottle

> Graphium sarpedon — Insecten en spinnen. Graphium sarpedon, the common bluebottle is a species of swallowtail butterfly that is found in East, South and Southeast Asia.

- Scientific name: *Graphium sarpedon*
- Category: `insects` (Insecten en spinnen)
- Habitats: unknown
- iNaturalist observations: 16289
- Wikidata: [Q1377249](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1377249)
- iNaturalist taxon: [125936](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/125936)

## Names

- en: Common Bluebottle
- de: Kolibrifalter
- es: Triángulo Azul
- fr: Voilier bleu

## Countries with the most observations

TW (3919), HK (2475), JP (2411), CN (2008), SG (1382), MY (795), TH (611), IN (538), ID (500), MO (184), VN (169), KR (162)

## Summary

Graphium sarpedon, the common bluebottle is a species of swallowtail butterfly that is found in East, South and Southeast Asia. There are approximately sixteen subspecies with differing geographical distributions.

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphium_sarpedon

## Photo

![Common Bluebottle](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/common-bluebottle/medium.jpg)

Photo: Dhiraj Kumar Sah · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/264475477

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/common-bluebottle?lang=nl` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).