Narrative

Non-tailed Graphium of African contain twenty-seven probable species. The group is made up of the following (an * indicates that this species is pictured):

SPECIES LOCATION
Graphium adamaster* - West Africa
Graphium agamedes* - West Africa
Graphium almansor - Ethiopia to Angola
Graphium angolanus(=pylades) - South and south central Africa
Graphium auriger - West Africa
Graphium aurivilliusi - Zaire? Congo?
Graphium cyrnus* - Madagascar
Graphium endochus* - Madagascar
Graphium fulleri - West Africa
Graphium hachei - Central Africa
Graphium latreillianus* - West Africa
Graphium levassori - Comoros
Graphium leonidas* - Central and southern Africa
Graphium morania* - South Africa
Graphium odin* - Central Africa

Graphium olbrechtsi
Graphium pelopidas Tanzania
Graphium philonoe* East Africa
Graphium poggianus Angola, Zaire, etcetera
Graphium taboranus Zaire, Tanzania
Graphium ridleyanus* Ghana to Angola, Uganda
Graphium simoni Cameroon and Zaire
Graphium tynderaeus Ghana to Zaire
Graphium ucalegon South central Africa
Graphium ucalegonides Ghana to Central African Rep.
Graphium weberi Cameroon

Note: At least six of the species listed might not be valid species. Those six are:
Graphium aurivillusi is known only from the type series, and it might not be distinct from agamedes.
Graphium fulleri might be a form of G. ucalegonides.
Graphium olbrechtsi is a recently described species.
Graphium pelopidas might be a form of G. leonidas.
Graphium poggianus might be a form of G. almansor.
Graphium simoni might be a form of Graphium ucalegon.
Graphium weberi is known by only one specimen.

Taxonomy

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