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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Domain: Eukaryota
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.

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  1. Pycnostachys abyssinicaFresen. - Ethiopia
  2. Pycnostachys angolensisG.Taylor - Angola
  3. Pycnostachys batesiiBaker - Cameroon, Zaïre, Sudan, Uganda
  4. Pycnostachys chevalieriBriq. - Central African Republic
  5. Pycnostachys ciliataBramley - Tanzania, Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia
  6. Pycnostachys coeruleaHook. - East Africa from Ethiopia to Botswana; Madagascar
  7. Pycnostachys congensisGürke - Zaïre, Zambia
  8. Pycnostachys de-wildemanianaRobyns & Lebrun - East Africa from Burundi to Zimbabwe
  9. Pycnostachys deflexifoliaBaker - Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda
  10. Pycnostachys descampsiiBriq. - Zaïre
  11. Pycnostachys elliotiiS.Moore - Zaïre, Uganda
  12. Pycnostachys eminiiGürke - from Cameroon to Ethiopia + Tanzania
  13. Pycnostachys erici-roseniiR.E.Fr - Zaïre, Uganda, Burundi, Rwanda
  14. Pycnostachys goetzeniiGürke - Zaïre, Uganda, Rwanda
  15. Pycnostachys gracilisR.D.Good - Angola
  16. Pycnostachys graminifoliaPerkins - Tanzania
  17. Pycnostachys kassneriDe Wild - Zaïre, Zambia, Tanzania
  18. Pycnostachys lancifoliaBramley - Tanzania
  19. Pycnostachys meyeriGürke - western + central Africa
  20. Pycnostachys nepetifoliaBaker - Kenya
  21. Pycnostachys niamniamensisGürke - South Sudan, Kenya, Uganda
  22. Pycnostachys orthodontaGürke - Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Zambia, Tanzania
  23. Pycnostachys parvifoliaBaker - Zambia, Tanzania, Malawi
  24. Pycnostachys prittwitziiPerkins - Zambia, Tanzania
  25. Pycnostachys pseudospeciosaBuscal. & Muschl. - Zaïre, Zambia
  26. Pycnostachys recurvataRyding - Ethiopia
  27. Pycnostachys reticulata(E.Mey.) Benth. - central + southern Africa
  28. Pycnostachys ruandensisDe Wild. - east-central Africa
  29. Pycnostachys schliebeniiMildbr. - east-central Africa
  30. Pycnostachys schweinfurthiiBriq - western + central Africa
  31. Pycnostachys speciosaGürke - Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Rwanda
  32. Pycnostachys sphaerocephalaBaker - Zambia, Tanzania, Malawi, Zaïre
  33. Pycnostachys stuhlmanniiGürke - central Africa
  34. Pycnostachys umbrosa(Vatke) Perkins - Kenya, Tanzania
  35. Pycnostachys urticifoliaHook. - southeastern Africa
  36. Pycnostachys verticillataBaker - Zambia, Tanzania

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


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