''Graphium sandawanum'', the Apo swallowtail, is a species of

butterfly Butterflies are winged insects from the lepidopteran superfamily Papilionoidea, characterized by large, often brightly coloured wings that often fold together when at rest, and a conspicuous, fluttering flight. The oldest butterfly fossi ...

in the family

Papilionidae Swallowtail butterflies are large, colorful Butterfly, butterflies in the family Papilionidae, and include over 550 species. Though the majority are tropical, members of the family inhabit every continent except Antarctica. The family includ ...

. It is

endemic Endemism is the state of a species being found only in a single defined geographic location, such as an island, state, nation, country or other defined zone; organisms that are indigenous to a place are not endemic to it if they are also foun ...

to the

Philippines The Philippines, officially the Republic of the Philippines, is an Archipelagic state, archipelagic country in Southeast Asia. Located in the western Pacific Ocean, it consists of List of islands of the Philippines, 7,641 islands, with a tot ...

Taxonomy

''Graphium sandawanum'' belongs to the ''wallacei''

species group In biology, a species complex is a group of closely related organisms that are so similar in appearance and other features that the boundaries between them are often unclear. The taxa in the complex may be able to hybridize readily with each oth ...

. This clade has four members: *'' Graphium wallacei'' (Hewitson, 1858) *'' Graphium hicetaon'' (Mathew, 1886) *'' Graphium browni'' (Godman & Salvin, 1879) *''Graphium sandawanum'' Yamamoto, 1977

References

Sources

*Page M. G.P & Treadaway, C. G. 2003 ''Schmetterlinge der Erde'', ''Butterflies of the World'' Part XVII (17), Papilionidae IX Papilionidae of the Philippine Islands. Edited by Erich Bauer and Thomas Frankenbach Keltern: Goecke & Evers; Canterbury: Hillside Books.

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sandawanum Lepidoptera of the Philippines Endemic fauna of the Philippines Fauna of Mindanao Taxonomy articles created by Polbot Butterflies described in 1977 {{papilionidae-stub