Papilio menestheus

Papilio menestheus, the western emperor swallowtail, is a species of swallowtail butterfly from the genus Papilio that is found in Senegal, Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Nigeria, Cameroon and Equatorial Guinea.[1]

Papilio menestheus
in the Bobiri Forest, Ghana
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Insecta
Order:
Lepidoptera
Family:
Papilionidae
Genus:
Papilio
Species:
P. menestheus
Binomial name
Papilio menestheus
Drury, 1773
Synonyms
  • Papilio menestheus ab. pygmaeus Aurivillius, 1899
  • Papilio menestheus ab. unimaculatus Strand, 1914
  • Papilio menestheus v. lormieri ab. latefasciatus Schultze, 1917

The larvae feed on Citrus species and Fagara macrophylla.

Taxonomy

Papilio menestheus is the nominal member of the menestheus species group. The members of the clade are:

Subspecies
  • Papilio menestheus menestheus (Senegal, Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Nigeria, western Cameroon)
  • Papilio menestheus canui Gauthier, 1984 (Equatorial Guinea)
gollark: ...²
gollark: Not other shapes. Just cuboids.
gollark: Even I can make nicer cuboids.
gollark: (Software defined radios. They can tune to large ranges of frequencies, and do the (de)modulation on a computer instead of specialized hardware. I have a £30 SDR receiver which can receive anything between 24MHz and ~1.7GHz, though it's obviously limited a lot by antennas)
gollark: <@229624651314233346> I'm pretty sure you're wrong about the "radios use one crystal for each band" thing, given the existence of SDRs.

References
  1. Papilio at Funet


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