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
	G. a. angolanus; G. a. baronis (Ungemach, 1932);
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;

The Angola White Lady (Graphium angolanus) is a species of butterfly in the Papilionidae family, found in Subsaharan Africa.^[1]

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

Subspecies

G. a. angolanus (Angola, southern Democratic Republic of 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, Sao Tome and Principe, Cameroon, Congo, Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of Congo, Chad, Sudan, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, Ethiopia, western Kenya, Tanzania)

^ ^a ^b Graphium, funet.fi
^ ^a ^b Woodhall, S. Field Guide to Butterflies of South Africa, Cape Town:Struik Publishers, 2005.

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