Papilio phorcas

Papilio phorcas


Mounted
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Papilionidae
Tribe:	Papilionini
Genus:	Papilio
Species:	P. phorcas
Binomial name
*Papilio phorcas* Cramer, [1775]
Synonyms
Princeps phorcas Papilio doreus Fabricius, 1775 Papilio thersander Fabricius, 1793

The Apple-green Swallowtail or Green Banded Swallowtail (Papilio phorcas) is a butterfly of the Papilionidae family. It is found in Africa.

Subspecies

Papilio phorcas phorcas (Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Benin, Nigeria)
Papilio phorcas ansorgei Rothschild, 1896 (Kenya (highland forest east of the Rift Valley))
Papilio phorcas congoanus Rothschild, 1896 (Nigeria, Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Congo, Central African Republic, northern Angola, Congo Republic, western Uganda, western Tanzania, N.Zambia)
Papilio phorcas nyikanus Rothschild & Jordan, 1903 (highland forest of north-eastern Zambia, Malawi and eastern Tanzania)
Papilio phorcas ruscoei Krüger, 1928 (eastern Uganda, Kenya (highlands west of the Rift Valley)
Papilio phorcas sudanicola Storace, 1965 (southern Sudan)
Papilio phorcas tenuifasciatus Kielland, 1990 (northern Tanzania, Kenya)
Papilio phorcas bardamu Canu, 1994 (Bioko Island)