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Graphium almansor

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Class
  
Insecta

Family
  
Papilionidae

Rank
  
Species

Phylum
  
Arthropoda

Order
  
Lepidoptera

Genus
  
Graphium

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Graphium almansor, the Almansor white-lady swordtail or Honrath's white lady, is a butterfly in the family Papilionidae (swallowtails). It is found in Guinea, Ghana, Togo, Nigeria, Cameroon, the Republic of the Congo, Angola, the Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Sudan, Ethiopia, Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Zambia and possibly Rwanda and Burundi.

Adults of both sexes mimic Amauris species, including Amauris damocles and species of the Amauris echeria-group. Males are attracted to damp spots on river banks (mud-puddling) and both sexes feed from flowers.

The larvae feed on Pseudospondias microcarpa.

Subspecies

  • Graphium almansor almansor (Angola, Democratic Republic of the Congo, northern Zambia)
  • Graphium almansor birbiri (Ungemach, 1932) (south-western Ethiopia)
  • Graphium almansor carchedonius (Karsch, 1895) (Guinea, Ghana, Togo)
  • Graphium almansor escherichi (Gaede, 1915) (eastern Nigeria, Cameroon, Congo, Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of the Congo, southern Sudan, Uganda)
  • Graphium almansor uganda (Lathy, 1906) (Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda, south-western Kenya, north-western Tanzania, Rwanda, Burundi)

    • References

    Graphium almansor Wikipedia
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