Top Qs
Timeline
Chat
Perspective
Graphium philonoe
Species of butterfly From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Remove ads
Graphium philonoe, the eastern white-lady swordtail, is a butterfly in the family Papilionidae. It is found in Sudan, Ethiopia, Uganda, Kenya, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Tanzania, Malawi and Mozambique.[3] Its habitat consists of coastal and riparian forests.
Remove ads
Description
For terms, see External morphology of Lepidoptera
Differs from [related species] in that the discal spots of cellules 1 a and 1 b of the forewing cover the base of these cellules; the submarginal spots of cellules 4—8 of the fore¬wing are single, rounded and rather large, those of the hindwing on the contrary represented in each cellule by two streaks; the basal spots of cellules 2, 3 and 6 of the hindwing are sharply defined distally, transversely cut off or rounded; the cell of the forewing before the middle with three white dots in a transverse line, then a large transverse spot divided into three parts by the dark folds and finally at the apex two white dots; the discal spots of cellules 2—4 of the forewing are usually rounded and more or less separated. — German and British East Africa.[4]
Remove ads
Biology
Males may infrequently mud-puddle. Both sexes are attracted to flowers, including Maerua species.
The larvae feed on Uvaria leptocladon, Uvaria chamae and Annona species.
Subspecies
- Graphium philonoe philonoe (Democratic Republic of the Congo, coast of Kenya, eastern Tanzania, Malawi, Mozambique)
- Graphium philonoe whalleyi (Talbot, 1929)[5] (southern Sudan, south-western Ethiopia, northern Uganda, north-western Kenya)
Taxonomy
It is a member of the tynderaeus -clade (Graphium tynderaeus, Graphium philonoe, Graphium latreillianus).In some works it is seen as the sole member of species group philonoe.
Images
References
Wikiwand - on
Seamless Wikipedia browsing. On steroids.
Remove ads