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INSECT FACTS |
Identification
Macleay's Swallowtail is a beautiful emerald green butterfly with broad brown wing margins and long tails on the hindwings. They are active butterflies and rarely settle, fluttering in the canopy or in sunlit shafts lower down
Size
wingspan: male 53mm; female 59mm
Habitat
coastal rainforest and mountainous rainforest
Food
the adults feed from flowers such as Leptospermum, Lantana and buddleia
Range
found along eastern Australia from the coast to the dividing range, from north Queensland and along eastern New South Wales. Also found in Victoria and Tasmania.
Classification
| Class: | Insecta | | Order: | Lepidoptera | | Family: | Papilionidae | | Genus: | Graphium | | Species: | macleayanus | | Common Name: | Macleay's Swallowtail |
Relatives in same Genus
Green Spotted Triangle (G. agamemnon)
Five-barred Swordtail (G. aristeus)
Pale Triangle (G. eurypylus)
Blue Triangle (G. sarpedon)
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