The ground colour is black and the light areas greenish blue.

The hindwing verso is strongly mottled with silky purplish brown.The blue spot in the cell of the forewing above reaches basad about to the middle of cellule 2; forewing beneath with large yellowish submarginal spots in cellules 1 b—4.

[3] Papilio chrapkowskii belongs to a clade called the nireus species group with 15 members.

The pattern is black with green or blue bands and spots and the butterflies, although called swallowtails lack tails with the exception of Papilio charopus and Papilio hornimani.

The clade members are: It is smaller than Papilio chrapkowskoides with the blue band narrower.