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Papilio phorcas

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Class
  
Insecta

Family
  
Papilionidae

Scientific name
  
Papilio phorcas

Phylum
  
Arthropoda

Order
  
Lepidoptera

Tribe
  
Papilionini

Rank
  
Species

Papilio phorcas Papilio phorcas Applegreen Swallowtail Butterfly Real Butterfly

Similar
  
Papilio constantinus, Papilio nireus, Papilio lormieri, Papilio cynorta, Papilio zenobia

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Papilio phorcas, the apple-green swallowtail or green-banded swallowtail, is a butterfly of the family Papilionidae. It is found in Africa.

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

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Taxonomy

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

  • Papilio dardanus Brown, 1776
  • Papilio constantinus Ward, 1871
  • Papilio delalandei Godart, [1824]
  • Papilio phorcas Cramer, [1775]
  • Papilio rex Oberthür, 1886

    • Subspecies

    Papilio phorcas ButterflyCornernet Papilio phorcas Green Banded Swallowtail

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

    • Ecozone

    Afrotropic ecozone.

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    References

    Papilio phorcas Wikipedia
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