page_title: Graphium nomius
section_title: Food plants
hierarchical_section_title: Graphium nomius / Food plants
caption_attribution_description: Papilio nomius swinhoei = Graphium nomius swinhoei (Moore, 1878), underwing and upper forewing English: Spot Swordtail
context_page_description: Graphium nomius, the spot swordtail, is a butterfly found in South and Southeast Asia that belongs to the swallowtail family. The species was first described by Eugenius Johann Christoph Esper in 1793. One of the grandest sights is a host of spot swordtails mud-puddling or swarming around a flowering forest tree.
  The spot swordtail gets its name from the line of distinct white spots along the margin of its wings.
context_section_description: The larval host plants are Miliusa tomentosum, Miliusa velutina and Polyalthia longifolia of the family Annonaceae. Miliusa tomentosum is a deciduous tree. The pupae of the previous year's brood emerge, seek mates and lay eggs just as the tree puts out new growth.
caption: Spot swordtail illustration from Charles Thomas Bingham's Fauna of British India - Lepidoptera
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