Graphium angolanus

Angola white lady
Conservation status
Not evaluated (IUCN 2.3)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Papilionidae
Genus:	Graphium
Species:	G. angolanus
Binomial name
Graphium angolanus (Goeze, 1779)
Subspecies
See text
Synonyms
Papilio angolanus Goeze, 1779 Graphium pylades Papilio corinneus Bertoloni, 1850 Papilio anthemenes Wallengren, 1857 Papilio pylades lapydes Suffert, 1904 Papilio pylades angolanus ab. kitungulua Strand, 1911 Papilio pylades-angolanus ab. hypochroa Boullet & Le Cerf, 1912 Papilio angolanus ab. spoliatus Schultze, 1913 Papilio (Cosmodesmus) pylades angolanus ab. dawanti Dufrane, 1946 Papilio (Cosmodesmus) pylades angolanus ab. wansoni Dufrane, 1946 Papilio (Cosmodesmus) pylades angolanus ab. jottrandi Dufrane, 1946 Papilio (Cosmodesmus) pylades angolanus ab. deficiens Dufrane, 1946 Papilio (Cosmodesmus) pylades angolanus ab. blariauxi Dufrane, 1946 Papilio (Cosmodesmus) pylades angolanus ab. addenda Dufrane, 1946 Graphium angolanus howelli Turlin & Lequeux, 1992 Graphium angolanus howelli f. jozani Turlin & Lequeux, 1992 Papilio corineus Papilio pylades baronis Ungemach, 1932 Papilio pylades Fabricius, 1793 Papilio (Cosmodesmus) pylades pylades ab. houzeaui Dufrane, 1946 Graphium calabar Hancock, 1985

Graphium angolanus, the Angola white lady, is a species of butterfly in the family Papilionidae (swallowtails). It is found in Sub-Saharan Africa.^[1]

The wingspan is 65–70 mm in males and 70–75 mm in females. The fight period is year round, peaking in November and February.^[2]

The caterpillars feed on Annona senegalensis, Sphedamnocarpus pruriens, Uvaria species, Landolphia buchannani, and Landolphia ugandensis.^[1][2]

Subspecies

• G. a. angolanus (Angola, southern Democratic Republic of the Congo, coast of Kenya, Tanzania, Malawi, Zambia, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, northern Botswana, northern Namibia, South Africa, Swaziland, Comoros)
• G. a. baronis (Ungemach, 1932) (Senegal, Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Ivory Coast, Mali, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Togo, Benin, Niger, Nigeria, São Tomé and Príncipe, Cameroon, Congo, Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Chad, Sudan, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, Ethiopia, western Kenya, Tanzania)

Taxonomy

Graphium angolanus belongs to a clade with six members. All have similar genitalia. The pattern is black with white marks above and with brick-red areas beneath. In G. endochus the white areas above are extensive and cover most of the wings and in G. ridleyanus the marks are usually bright red not white. 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)

Ecozone

Afrotropical ecozone

See also

• Guinean Forests of West Africa
• Congolian forests

References

1. Graphium angolanus, funet.fi
2. Woodhall, S. Field Guide to Butterflies of South Africa, Cape Town:Struik Publishers, 2005.

• Carcasson, R.H. (1960) The Swallowtail Butterflies of East Africa (Lepidoptera, Papilionidae). Journal of the East Africa Natural History Society pdf (as pylades) Key to East Africa members of the species group, diagnostic and other notes and figures. (Permission to host granted by The East Africa Natural History Society).