Search the Web with our sponsor, Overture. Another name for a group of butterflies is a swarm. They are havens for millions of plants and animals, including many butterflies and moths.
Males have brighter markings than females.
The head is bright red and the body is black with red markings. The larval host plant is Aristolochia foveolata . Adults sip fruit juices and flower nectar. Family Papillonidae , Subfamily Papilloninae. This butterfly was named by the naturalist Alfred R. Wallace in 1855, naming it for Sir James Brooke, the Rajah of Sarawak.