Papilio mackinnoni

Papilio mackinnoni
Plate accompanying Sharpe's 1891 description in Proceedings of the Zoological Society
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Papilionidae
Genus: Papilio
Species:
P. mackinnoni
Binomial name
Papilio mackinnoni
Synonyms
  • Papilio mackinnoni immaculatus Suffert, 1904
  • Papilio mackinnoni bimaculatus Suffert, 1904
  • Papilio mackinnoni f.indiv. unimaculatus Le Cerf, 1924
  • Papilio mackinnnoni var. elgonia Bryk, 1926
  • Papilio mackinnoni ab. ampliusmaculata Krüger, 1928
  • Papilio mackinnoni mackinnoni f. addenda Dufrane, 1953

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.

  1. ^ "Afrotropical Butterflies: File C – Papilionidae - Tribe Papilionini". Archived from the original on 2014-02-22. Retrieved 2012-05-10.
  2. ^ Sharpe, E. M. Bowdler 1891 Descriptions of New Butterflies collected by Mr. F. J. Jackson, F.Z.S:, in British East Africa, during his recent Expedition. - Part I & II Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1891 : 187-194, pl. 16-17, : 633-638, pl. 48 Full text .
  3. ^ "Papilio". www.nic.funet.fi. Retrieved 2017-07-26.