Kingdom Animalia Class Insecta Family Papilionidae Rank Species | Phylum Arthropoda Order Lepidoptera Genus Graphium | |
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Similar Graphium tynderaeus, Graphium leonidas, Graphium illyris, Graphium almansor, Graphium hachei | ||
Graphium latreillianus, the coppery swordtail, is a butterfly in the family Papilionidae. It is found in Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Nigeria, Cameroon, Sao Tome and Principe, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, the Republic of the Congo, Angola, the Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Chad, Uganda and Tanzania. Its habitat consists of primary forests.
Males mud-puddle and are also attracted to urine-soaked sand, human perspiration and camp rubbish tips.
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Graphium latreillianus Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA