| Schaffgotsch's swordtail | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Clade: | Pancrustacea |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Papilionidae |
| Genus: | Graphium |
| Species: | G. schaffgotschi |
| Binomial name | |
| Graphium schaffgotschi (Niepelt, 1927) | |
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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. 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.
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