Endangered
Papilio godeffroyi
Papilio godeffroyi
Papilio godeffroyi, the Godeffroy's swallowtail, (Samoan pepe ae) is a butterfly of the family Papilionidae.
Appearance
Male forewing rather pointed, with oblique band of white spots distally to the cell, the band beneath continued to the submedian by an interrupted or complete row of narrow transverse spots. Hindwing above with bluish grey discal band, that is pointed posteriorly and does not enter the cell. Distally to the band indistinctly defined blue spots; fringe-spots of both wings large. Beneath the band of the forewing only indicated by a faint line, distally to this a complete row of blue lunules, the submarginal spots yellowish grey, not sharply defined, the anal spot yellow-red.
Range and habitat
Papilio godeffroyi was endemic to all of Samoa, but it is now found only on the island of Tutuila, where it is uncommon but widespread and restricted to undisturbed or near-undisturbed rainforest. This is only around 5% of its original range, and the species has recently been submitted to the IUCN Red List as critically endangered.
Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.
Diet
The adult is what most collections hold. The larva — the feeding stage — is often undescribed for the rarest names.
Life history follows the order: complete metamorphosis in moths and beetles, nymphs in grasshoppers and bugs. This page does not invent a host plant that no source named.
In crisis
Named moths and butterflies with a high threat category are often known from a small range and a thin series. Host-plant loss leaves little to recount.
Papilio godeffroyi is Endangered on this catalog because that is the IUCN category stored on Wikidata. Confirm the official criteria and any later count on iucnredlist.org.
Sources
Written for this catalog from the English Wikipedia article on Papilio godeffroyi, Wikidata item Q661296. Family and order context is original field-guide writing about the group, not a copied assessment of this one species. Wikipedia text is CC BY-SA. Not an IUCN assessment. Counts, when quoted, can change — confirm them on the recovery programme and on iucnredlist.org.
