Papilio phorcas

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Papilio phorcas
Papilio phorcas. Male.
Papilio phorcas. Female.
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][1]
Synonyms
  • Princeps phorcas
  • Papilio doreus Fabricius, 1775
  • Papilio thersander Fabricius, 1793
  • Papilio phorcas f. media Le Cerf, 1924
  • Papilio nandina Rothschild & Jordan, 1901
  • Papilio phorcas tippelskirchi Suffert, 1904
  • Papilio phorcas f. thersandroides Aurivillius, 1908
  • Papilio phorcas bardamu f. velledae Canu, 1994
  • Papilio phorcas caspor Suffert, 1904
  • Papilio phorcas ab. kassaiensis Strand, 1916
  • Papilio phorcas f. bergeri Storace, 1955
  • Papilio phorcas f. xera Storace, 1955
  • Papilio phorcas f. viridissima Basquin & Turlin, 1986
  • Papilio phorcas congoanus f. ponzonii Sala, 1992
  • Papilio phorcas leopoldi Suffert, 1904
  • Papilio phorcas ab. phorcadius Strand, 1911
  • Papilio phorcas f. ruscoei Krüger, 1928
  • Papilio phorcas f. mutans Le Cerf, 1924
  • Papilio phorcas f. furcula Bryk, 1927
  • Papilio phorcas f. inexpectata Bryk, 1927
  • Papilio phorcas pseudothersander Krüger, 1937
  • Papilio phorcas f. polyxena Stoneham, 1951
  • Papilio phorcas f. bayoni Storace, 1955
  • Papilio phorcas nilotica Storace, 1961
  • Papilio phorcas tenuifasciatus f. meto Kielland, 1990

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

The larvae feed on Teclea nobilis, Teclea simplicifolia, Macrostylis villosa, Oriciopsis, Vepris, Calodendrum, Clausena, Citrus, Fagara and Toddalia species.[2]

Taxonomy

Papilio phorcas is a member of the dardanus species-group. The members of the clade are

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)

Ecozone

Afrotropic ecozone

References

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  1. ↑ Papilio, Site of Markku Savela
  2. ↑ Afrotropical Butterflies: File C – Papilionidae - Tribe Papilionini
  • Carcasson, R.H 1960 The Swallowtail Butterflies of East Africa (Lepidoptera,Papilionidae). Journal of the East Africa Natural History Society pdf Key to East Africa members of the species group, diagnostic and other notes and figures. (Permission to host granted by The East Africa Natural History Society)
  • Collins, N.M., Morris, M.G., IUCN, 1985 Threatened Swallowtail Butterflies of the World: the IUCN Red Data Book (1985) IUCN pdf
  • Storace, L.,1955 Su alcune Papilionidae Africane, con descrizioni di nuove forme (Lepidoptera, Diurna). Memorie della Societa Entomologica Italiana 33:120-137.

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