Papilio mackinnoni

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Papilio mackinnoni
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Plate accompanying Sharpe's 1891 description in Proceedings of the Zoological Society
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Papilionidae
Genus: Papilio
Species:
P. mackinnoni
Binomial name
Papilio mackinnoni
Sharpe, 1891 [1] [2]
Synonyms
  • Papilio mackinnoni immaculatusSuffert, 1904
  • Papilio mackinnoni bimaculatusSuffert, 1904
  • Papilio mackinnoni f.indiv. unimaculatusLe Cerf, 1924
  • Papilio mackinnnoni var. elgoniaBryk, 1926
  • Papilio mackinnoni ab. ampliusmaculataKrüger, 1928
  • Papilio mackinnoni mackinnoni f. addendaDufrane, 1953

Papilio mackinnoni, the Mackinnon's swallowtail, is a species of swallowtail butterfly from the genus Papilio that is found in Kenya, Tanzania, Malawi, Zambia, Angola, Uganda, Zaire, South Sudan, the Republic of the Congo, Rwanda and Burundi. [3]

Contents

The larvae feed on Rutaceae , Clausema , Toddalia , Citrus , Teclea simplicifolia , T. nobilis and T. tricocarpa .

Subspecies

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Rwenzori Mountains light forest

Habitat

Congolian forests and Albertine Rift montane forests.

Biogeographic realm

This species is located in the Afrotropical realm.

References

  1. "Afrotropical Butterflies: File C – Papilionidae - Tribe Papilionini". Archived from the original on 2014-02-22. Retrieved 2012-05-10.
  2. Sharpe, E. M. Bowdler 1891 Descriptions of New Butterflies collected by Mr. F. J. Jackson, F.Z.S:, in British East Africa, during his recent Expedition. - Part I & II Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1891 : 187-194, pl. 16-17, : 633-638, pl. 48 Full text .
  3. "Papilio". www.nic.funet.fi. Retrieved 2017-07-26.
  4. Jordan, K. 1908a. Some new and some unfigured Lepidoptera. Novitates Zoologicae 15: 253-258.
  5. Riley, 1921 Notes on the Rhopalocera of the Dollman Collection Trans. ent. Soc. Lond. 1921 (1-2) : 234-259, pl. 4-7 [ Full text]
  6. Hancock, D. L. 1984 Arnoldia Zimbabwe 9 (12): 187
  7. Kielland, 1990 Butterflies of Tanzania. Hill House, Melbourne and London: 1-363