Purple spotted swallowtail
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
| phylum | Arthropoda | The purple spotted swallowtail (Graphium weiskei), which is found only in the highlands of New Guinea, is a butterfly of the swallowtail family, Papilionidae. It resembles the related Graphium stresemanni. These swallowtails live in elevations of 4,500 to 8,000 feet (1,400 to 2,400 m).
For more information, visit the Wikipedia entry. Get back to Swallowtail butterflies |
| Class | Insecta | |
| order | Lepidoptera | |
| family | Papilionidae | |
| genus | Graphium | |
| species | G. weiskei |
