Papilio mackinnoni

Papilio mackinnoni
Plate accompanying Sharpe's 1891 description in Proceedings of the Zoological Society
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Papilionidae
Genus: Papilio
Species:
P. mackinnoni
Binomial name
Papilio mackinnoni
Sharpe, 1891
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.

The larvae feed on Rutaceae, Clausema, Toddalia, Citrus, Teclea simplicifolia, T. nobilis and T. tricocarpa.

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