Graphium schaffgotschi

Schaffgotsch’s Swordtail
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Papilionidae
Genus: Graphium
Species: G. schaffgotschi
Binomial name
Graphium schaffgotschi
(Niepelt, 1927)[1]
Synonyms
  • Papilio schaffgotschi Niepelt, 1927
  • Graphium (Arisbe) schaffgotschi

The Schaffgotsch’s Swordtail (Graphium schaffgotschi) is a butterfly in the family Papilionidae. It is found in Namibia, Angola, the southern part of the Democratic Republic of Congo and north-western Zambia.[2] The habitat consists of savanna.

Adults are on wing year round.

Taxonomy

Regarded as conspecific with Graphium taboranus by some earlier authorities

References

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