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.
Graphium schaffgotschi belongs to a clade with six members. All have similar genitalia The clade members are:
It was regarded as conspecific with Graphium taboranus by some earlier authorities.[3]