Graphium codrus is a butterfly of the family Papilionidae, that is found in the Philippines, Celebes and Solomon Islands.The body with white-grey hairs, the upperside of the head and thorax green.

Upper surface of the wings silky black-green in the male somewhat paler and almost entirely without gloss in the female; forewing with a macular band extending from the apex to the middle of the hindmargin, which is often incomplete and is above green or yellow and scaleless, beneath green-white and scaled; hindwing elongate-triangular,with broad tail, the base and the abdominal margin to about the apex of the cell grey-white.

The under sur¬ face blackish brown, distally to the hand of the forewing only with light and dark shadows, the hindwing, however, often with triangular costal patch as continuation of the band of the forewing; distinct submarginal spots are absent both above and beneath.

[1] The food-plants are trees with large leaves divided into five lobes [Hernandia, Annona, Uvaria[2]].

The butterfly has a very swift and straight flight; it mostly flies high in the air among the tops of trees, yet it often darts down with lightning speed to feed at flowers or rotten fruit (with which it can be baited); it is especially often seen at the sea-shore, where it is fond of drinking on damp sand.