Schaffgotsch's swordtail | |
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Papilionidae |
Genus: | Graphium |
Species: | G. schaffgotschi
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Binomial name | |
Graphium schaffgotschi | |
Synonyms | |
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Graphium schaffgotschi, the Schaffgotsch's swordtail, is a butterfly in the family Papilionidae (swallowtails). It is found in Namibia, Angola, the southern part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and north-western Zambia.[2] Its habitat consists of savanna.
Adults are on wing year round.
Images
[edit]External images from Royal Museum of Central Africa.
Taxonomy
[edit]Graphium schaffgotschi belongs to a clade with six members. All have similar genitalia The clade members are:
- Graphium angolanus (Goeze, 1779)
- Graphium endochus (Boisduval, 1836)
- Graphium morania (Angas, 1849)
- Graphium taboranus (Oberthür, 1886)
- Graphium schaffgotschi (Niepelt, 1927)
- Graphium ridleyanus (White, 1843)
It was regarded as conspecific with Graphium taboranus by some earlier authorities.[3]
References
[edit]- ^ Graphium schaffgotschi, Site of Markku Savela
- ^ Afrotropical Butterflies: File C – Papilionidae - Tribe Leptocercini
- ^ "List of Papilionidae". www.insects-online.de. Archived from the original on 2010-09-09. Retrieved 2017-07-26.
- Niepelt, W. (1927): Neue exotischer Rhopaloceren. Internationale Entomologische Zeitschrift 21:49-53.
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