Graphium macareus, the lesser zebra, is a relatively common and not threatened species of swallowtail butterfly found in Southeast Asia.

Karl Jordan in Seitz (pages 103-104) provides a description differentiating macareus from nearby taxa and discussing some forms.

Upperside: ground colour and markings very similar to those of Graphium xenocles, but the former is of a more brownish-fuliginous tint and the latter are all very much narrower; also there are distinctly two well-divided streaks in interspace 1 of the forewing; on the hindwing there is never any tornal yellow spot, while the bluish-white streak in the coll is very often divided.

It differs from the underside of G. xenocles by the absence in most specimens of the yellow tornal spot on the hindwing; also the terminal brown margin on the same wing is proportionately much broader and much darker.

(Rothschild quoted in Bingham, 1907)[3] The male congregate in swarms at wet places, whilst they are taken singly in the woods on flowers, on which they rest with the wings closed.macareus mimics Parantica aglea.