Papilio mackinnoni

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.[2]

Papilio mackinnoni
Plate accompanying Sharpe's 1891 description in Proceedings of the Zoological Society
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Insecta
Order:
Lepidoptera
Family:
Papilionidae
Genus:
Papilio
Species:
P. mackinnoni
Binomial name
Papilio mackinnoni
Sharpe, 1891[1]
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

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

Subspecies
  • Papilio mackinnoni mackinnoni (southern Sudan, Republic of the Congo, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, Kenya, north-eastern Tanzania)
  • Papilio mackinnoni benguellae Jordan, 1908 (highlands of central Angola)
  • Papilio mackinnoni theodori Riley, 1921 (southern Zaire, north-western Zambia)
  • Papilio mackinnoni isokae (Hancock, 1984) (north-eastern Zambia, western Tanzania, northern Malawi)
  • Papilio mackinnoni mpwapwana Kielland, 1990 (eastern Tanzania)
  • Papilio mackinnoni reductofascia Kielland, 1990 (northern Tanzania, southern Kenya)
Rwenzori Mountains light forest

Habitat

Congolian forests and Albertine Rift montane forests.

Biogeographic realm

This species is located in the Afrotropical realm.

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References
  1. Afrotropical Butterflies: File C – Papilionidae - Tribe Papilionini
  2. "Papilio". www.nic.funet.fi. Retrieved 2017-07-26.
  • 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)
  • Collins, N. Mark; Morris, Michael G. (1985). Threatened Swallowtail Butterflies of the World: The IUCN Red Data Book. Gland & Cambridge: IUCN. ISBN 978-2-88032-603-6 – via Biodiversity Heritage Library.


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