Graphium almansor

Graphium almansor

Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Papilionidae
Genus:	Graphium
Species:	G. almansor
Binomial name
*Graphium almansor* (Honrath, 1884)^[1]
Synonyms
Papilio almansor Honrath, 1884 Graphium (Arisbe) almansor Graphium almansor almansor f. albescens Berger, 1950 Graphium almansor almansor f. depuncta Berger, 1950 Papilio charcedonius birbiri Ungemach, 1932 Papilio charchedonius Karsch, 1895 Papilio escherichi Gaede, 1915 Graphium almansor snowi Gabriel, 1945 Papilio uganda Lathy, 1906 Papilio graueri Grünberg, 1908

Graphium almansor, the Almansor white-lady swordtail or Honrath's white lady, is a butterfly in the family Papilionidae (swallowtails). It is found in Guinea, Ghana, Togo, Nigeria, Cameroon, the Republic of the Congo, Angola, the Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Sudan, Ethiopia, Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Zambia and possibly Rwanda and Burundi.^[2]

Adults of both sexes mimic Amauris species, including Amauris damocles and species of the Amauris echeria-group. Males are attracted to damp spots on river banks (mud-puddling) and both sexes feed from flowers.

The larvae feed on Pseudospondias microcarpa.

Subspecies

Graphium almansor almansor (Angola, Democratic Republic of the Congo, northern Zambia)
Graphium almansor birbiri (Ungemach, 1932) (south-western Ethiopia)
Graphium almansor carchedonius (Karsch, 1895) (Guinea, Ghana, Togo)
Graphium almansor escherichi (Gaede, 1915) (eastern Nigeria, Cameroon, Congo, Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of the Congo, southern Sudan, Uganda)
Graphium almansor uganda (Lathy, 1906) (Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda, south-western Kenya, north-western Tanzania, Rwanda, Burundi)

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Carcasson, R.H 1960 The Swallowtail Butterflies of East Africa (Lepidoptera,Papilionidae). Journal of the East Africa Natural History Society pdf 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
Lewis, H. L., 1974 Butterflies of the World ISBN 0-245-52097-X page 89, figure 2.

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