Papilio sosia

Medium green-banded swallowtail
Specimen 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]
Synonyms
  • Papilio sosia f. imitatrix Storace, 1951
  • Papilio sosia ab. pristina Storace, 1951
  • Papilio sosia ab. atlantica Birket-Smith, 1960

Papilio sosia, the medium green-banded swallowtail, is a butterfly of the family Papilionidae. It is found in the Afrotropical ecozone.

The larva feeds on Zanthoxylum and Citrus.

Subspecies

Subspecies include:

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, they lack tails with the exception of Papilio charopus. The clade members are:

See also

References

  1. ↑ Afrotropical Butterflies: File C – Papilionidae - Tribe Papilionini
  2. ↑ Papilio sosia, Site of Markku Savela

Sources


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