Papilio mackinnoni
Species of butterfly
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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]
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Clade: | Pancrustacea |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Papilionidae |
| Genus: | Papilio |
| Species: | P. mackinnoni |
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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 [4] (highlands of central Angola)
- Papilio mackinnoni theodori Riley, 1921[5] (southern Zaire, north-western Zambia)
- Papilio mackinnoni isokae (Hancock, 1984) [6] (north-eastern Zambia, western Tanzania, northern Malawi)
- Papilio mackinnoni mpwapwana Kielland, 1990 [7] (eastern Tanzania)
- Papilio mackinnoni reductofascia Kielland, 1990 (northern Tanzania, southern Kenya)
Habitat
Biogeographic realm
This species is located in the Afrotropical realm.
