Papilio chrapkowskii
| Broad Green-banded Swallowtail | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Papilionidae |
| Genus: | Papilio |
| Species: | P. chrapkowskii |
| Binomial name | |
| Papilio chrapkowskii Suffert, 1904 | |
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The Broad Green-banded Swallowtail or Chrapkowski's Green-banded Swallowtail (Papilio chrapkowskii) is a species of swallowtail butterfly from the genus Papilio that is found in Uganda, Kenya and Tanzania.[1]
The larvae feed on Teclea species.
Taxonomy
Plate depicting the underside of Papilio chrapkowskii and accompanying Suffert's original description (Fig.2)
Papilio chrapkowskii 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 this species 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
Description
Smaller than above ( Papilio bromius) with the blue band narrower. Submarginal spots on [forewing] below well developed. Hindwing below strongly mottled with silky purplish brown.[2]
References
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- ↑ Papilio chrapkowskii, Funet.fi
- ↑ 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
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