Papilio mackinnoni | |
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Plate accompanying Sharpe's 1891 description in Proceedings of the Zoological Society | |
Scientific classification
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Papilionidae |
Genus: | Papilio |
Species: | P. mackinnoni
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Binomial name | |
Papilio mackinnoni | |
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Papilio mackinnoni, the Mackinnon's swallowtail, is a species of swallowtail butterfly from the genus Papilio that is found in Kenya, Tanzania, Malawi, Zambia, Angola, Uganda, Zaire, South Sudan, the Republic of the Congo, Rwanda and Burundi. [3]
The larvae feed on Rutaceae, Clausema, Toddalia, Citrus, Teclea simplicifolia, T. nobilis and T. tricocarpa.
Congolian forests and Albertine Rift montane forests.
This species is located in the Afrotropical realm.
Papilio mackinnoni | |
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Plate accompanying Sharpe's 1891 description in Proceedings of the Zoological Society | |
Scientific classification
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Papilionidae |
Genus: | Papilio |
Species: | P. mackinnoni
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Binomial name | |
Papilio mackinnoni | |
Synonyms | |
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Papilio mackinnoni, the Mackinnon's swallowtail, is a species of swallowtail butterfly from the genus Papilio that is found in Kenya, Tanzania, Malawi, Zambia, Angola, Uganda, Zaire, South Sudan, the Republic of the Congo, Rwanda and Burundi. [3]
The larvae feed on Rutaceae, Clausema, Toddalia, Citrus, Teclea simplicifolia, T. nobilis and T. tricocarpa.
Congolian forests and Albertine Rift montane forests.
This species is located in the Afrotropical realm.