Angola white lady
The Angola white lady is a black butterfly with lots of white spots. It belongs to the swallowtail family, but its back wings have no long tails. Underneath, the bottom of its wings is red or red-brown.
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Fun facts
The females are a little bigger than the males. Their wings measure up to 75 millimetres across.
It flies all year round, but there are the most of them in November and February.
It has a wide yellow stripe on each side of its tummy.
Its caterpillar has pairs of little spines on its body.
Most asked questions about Angola white lady
?Where does the Angola white lady live?
In Africa south of the Sahara, in many countries from west to east and south.
?How big is the Angola white lady?
Its wings measure about 65 to 75 millimetres across. The females are a bit bigger.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Graphium angolanus
- Named by
- Goeze, 1779
- Group
- Butterflies
- Family
- Papilionidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Papilionidae
- Lives on
- Africa
Where the facts come from
- Graphium angolanus (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 Diego Delso. CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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