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Graphium illyris

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Class
  
Insecta

Family
  
Papilionidae

Rank
  
Species

Phylum
  
Arthropoda

Order
  
Lepidoptera

Genus
  
Graphium

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Similar
  
Graphium hachei, Graphium latreillianus, Graphium almansor, Graphium tynderaeus, Graphium ridleyanus

Graphium illyris, the cream-banded swordtail, is a forest butterfly of the swallowtail family (Papilionidae). It is native to the Afrotropic ecozone.

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Habitat

Tropical and subtropical ecoregions.

Status and biology

It is an uncommon to rare species and is seasonal in West Africa (with adults on wing mainly in February and March). Males mud-puddle, and are attracted to rotten fish as well as perspiration on humans.

Subspecies

  • G. i. illyris (Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, C.Ghana)
  • G. i. flavisparsus (Fruhstorfer, 1903) (Equatorial Guinea)
  • G. i. girardeaui (Guilbot & Plantrou, 1978) (Central African Republic)
  • G. i. hamatus (Joicey & Talbot, 1918) (Nigeria, Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Congo, Congo Republic, Tanzania)

    • References

    Graphium illyris Wikipedia
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