Papilio sosia
| Medium Green-banded Swallowtail | |
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| Papilio sosia on display in Musée zoologique de la ville de Strasbourg | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Papilionidae |
| Tribe: | Papilionini |
| Genus: | Papilio |
| Species: | P. sosia |
| Binomial name | |
| Papilio sosia Rothschild and Jordan, 1903[1][2] | |
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The Medium Green-banded Swallowtail (Papilio sosia) is a butterfly of the Papilionidae family. It is found in the Afrotropical ecozone.
The larva feeds on Zanthoxylum and Citrus
Subspecies
Subspecies include
- P. s. sosia (Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Benin, S.Nigeria, W.Cameroon)
- P. s. pulchra Berger, 1950 (Cameroon, Gabon, Congo, Central African Republic, N.Angola, Congo Republic)
- P. s. debilis Storace, 1951 (Uganda NW.Tanzania)
Taxonomy
Papilio sosia belongs to a clade called the nireus species-group with 13 members. The pattern is black with green bands and spots and the butterflies, although called swallowtails lack tails with the exception of Papilio charopus. The clade members are:
- Papilio aristophontes Oberthür, 1897
- Papilio nireus Linnaeus, 1758
- Papilio charopus Westwood, 1843
- Papilio chrapkowskii Suffert, 1904
- Papilio chrapkowskoides Storace, 1952
- Papilio desmondi van Someren, 1939
- Papilio hornimani Distant, 1879
- Papilio interjectana Vane-Wright, 1995
- Papilio sosia Rothschild & Jordan, 1903
- Papilio thuraui Karsch, 1900
- Papilio ufipa Carcasson, 1961
- Papilio wilsoni Rothschild, 1926
See also
References
- ↑ Afrotropical Butterflies: File C – Papilionidae - Tribe Papilionini
- ↑ Papilio sosia, Site of Markku Savela
Sources
- 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. and Morris, M.G. (1985). Threatened Swallowtail Butterflies of the World: the IUCN Red Data Book (1985) IUCN pdf
- Larsen, T.B. (2005). Butterflies of West Africa Apollo Books ISBN 87-88757-43-9
- Storace, L. (1951-1952). Recherches sur le groupe africain de Papilio nireus L. Lambillionea 51:44-52; 54-57; 73-76.
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