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652  Graphium leonidas leonidas
      Veined swordtail
   Malolotja Mlawula

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Distribution: Subsaharan Africa.
Wingspan: males 75–80 mm females 75–85 mm
Foodplants: Popowia caffra, Uvaria, Monanthotaxis caffra, Annona senegalensis
Flight Period: Has continuous broods, peaking from October to April.

10 records, from 11/23/1986 to 9/7/2015

Distribution, food plant and other information from Woodhall, S. Field Guide to Butterflies of South Africa, Cape Town: Struik Publishers, 2005; Butterflies of South Africa's National Botanical Gardens, An illustrated checklist, compiled by Christopher Willis and Steve Woodall; Ivor Migdoll's Field Guide to the Butterflies of Southern Africa, Struik Publishers, 1987, with additional information from Pennington's Butterflies. Larval food plants quoted are restricted to those species recorded from Swaziland. Numbers for each species are from Pennington's Butterflies.