Large striped swordtail
The large striped swordtail is a swallowtail butterfly from Africa. Its dark wings have green bars and spots, and each back wing ends in a long, thin tail like a little sword. Underneath it has a row of red spots.
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Fun facts
You can see it flying all year round, but most of all in November and December.
The females are a little bigger than the males.
Its caterpillar is brown or brownish green with a yellow belt near its head.
The caterpillar has four pairs of spines on its body.
Most asked questions about Large striped swordtail
?What does the large striped swordtail eat?
The butterfly drinks nectar. The caterpillar eats the leaves of custard apple trees and their relatives.
?How big is the large striped swordtail?
Its wings measure about 6.5 to 7.5 centimetres from tip to tip.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Graphium antheus
- Group
- Butterflies
- Family
- Papilionidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Papilionidae
- Lives on
- Africa
- Also known as
- Larger striped swordtail
Where the facts come from
- Graphium antheus (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0): what it looks like, where it lives, what it eats, sizes and fun facts, retold in simple words.
- Picture by Charles J. Sharp. CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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