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Papilio phorcas
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<h2 id="description">Description</h2> <p>A tailed species. The ground colour is black, with green markings. </p> <h2 id="taxonomy">Taxonomy</h2> <p><i>Papilio phorcas</i> is a member of the <i>dardanus</i> <a href="/facts/Species_group/u6qEMdRQ">species group</a>. The members of the <a href="/facts/Clade/XefyYmWn">clade</a> are: </p> <ul><li><i><a href="/facts/Papilio_dardanus/VUMv67GV">Papilio dardanus</a></i> Brown, 1776</li> <li><i><a href="/facts/Papilio_constantinus/ubt64Njd">Papilio constantinus</a></i> Ward, 1871</li> <li><i><a href="/facts/Papilio_delalandei/RqLIM7wp">Papilio delalandei</a></i> Godart, [1824]</li> <li><i>Papilio phorcas</i> Cramer, [1775]</li> <li><i><a href="/facts/Papilio_rex/mDU6mmS7">Papilio rex</a></i> Oberthür, 1886</li></ul> <h2 id="subspecies">Subspecies</h2> <ul><li><i>P. p. phorcas</i> (Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Benin, Nigeria)</li> <li><i>P. p. ansorgei</i> Rothschild, 1896.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:2" href="#fn:2"><sup>2</sup></a> (Kenya (highland forest east of the Rift Valley))</li> <li><i>P. p. congoanus</i> Rothschild, 1896 (Nigeria, Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Congo, Central African Republic, northern Angola, Congo Republic, western Uganda, western Tanzania, northern Zambia)</li> <li><i>P. p. nyikanus</i> Rothschild & Jordan, 1903 <a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:3" href="#fn:3"><sup>3</sup></a> (highland forest of north-eastern Zambia, Malawi and eastern Tanzania)</li> <li><i>P. p. ruscoei</i> Krüger, 1928 <a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:4" href="#fn:4"><sup>4</sup></a> (eastern Uganda, Kenya (highlands west of the Rift Valley))</li> <li><i>P. p. sudanicola</i> Storace, 1965 <a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:5" href="#fn:5"><sup>5</sup></a> (southern Sudan)</li> <li><i>P. p. tenuifasciatus</i> Kielland, 1990<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:6" href="#fn:6"><sup>6</sup></a> (northern Tanzania, Kenya)</li> <li><i>P. p. bardamu</i> Canu, 1994 <a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:7" href="#fn:7"><sup>7</sup></a> (Bioko Island)</li></ul> <h2 id="biogeographic-realm">Biogeographic realm</h2> <p><a href="/facts/Afrotropical_realm/I8ko4H7G">Afrotropical realm</a>. </p> <ul><li>Carcasson, R.H. 1960 "The Swallowtail Butterflies of East Africa (Lepidoptera, Papilionidae)". <i>Journal of the East Africa Natural History Society</i> <a href="https://archive.org/details/cbarchive_101755_theswallowtailbutterfliesofeas1960">pdf</a> 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)</li> <li>Collins, N. Mark; Morris, Michael G. (1985). <a href="https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/98674#page/7/mode/1up"><i>Threatened Swallowtail Butterflies of the World: The IUCN Red Data Book</i></a>. Gland & Cambridge: <a href="/facts/International_Union_for_Conservation_of_Nature/QwV8JXup">IUCN</a>. <a href="/facts/ISBN_(identifier)/15AdSPa9">ISBN</a> 978-2-88032-603-6 – via Biodiversity Heritage Library.</li> <li>Storace, L.,1955 Su alcune Papilionidae Africane, con descrizioni di nuove forme (Lepidoptera, Diurna). <i>Memorie della Societa Entomologica Italiana</i> 33:120-137.</li></ul> <h2 id="external-links">External links</h2> Wikimedia Commons has media related to Papilio phorcas. <a href="/facts/Wikispecies/b2GhA7Le">Wikispecies</a> has information related to <i>Papilio phorcas</i>. <ul><li><a href="http://en.butterflycorner.net/Papilio-phorcas-Green-Banded-Swallowtail.484.0.html">Butterfly Corner</a> Images from <a href="/facts/Naturhistorisches_Museum/e8B7g2Sr">Naturhistorisches Museum Wien</a></li></ul> <h2 id="references">References</h2> <ol> <li id="fn:1"><p>"Afrotropical Butterflies: File C – Papilionidae - Tribe Papilionini". Archived from the original on 2014-02-22. Retrieved 2012-05-09. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20140222060901/http://atbutterflies.com/downloads/papilionidae_papilionini.doc" target="_blank">https://web.archive.org/web/20140222060901/http://atbutterflies.com/downloads/papilionidae_papilionini.doc</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:2"><p>Rothschild, W. 1896. New Lepidoptera. Novitates Zoologicae 3: 322-328. <a href="/wiki/Novitates_Zoologicae" target="_blank">/wiki/Novitates_Zoologicae</a> <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:3"><p>Rothschild, W. and Jordan, K. 1903. Some new African Papilios. Novitates Zoologicae 10: 488-490. <a href="/wiki/Novitates_Zoologicae" target="_blank">/wiki/Novitates_Zoologicae</a> <a href="#fnref:3" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:4"><p>Bryk. F. & Krüger, E.? 1927 [1928] Zool. Anz. 74:77. (in Lepindex) <a href="#fnref:4" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:5"><p>Storace, L., 1965 J. E. Afr. Nat. Hist. Soc. Nat. Mus. 25 (1): 71 Full text <a href="https://archive.org/details/journalofea2511965110east/page/71/mode/1up?view=theater" target="_blank">https://archive.org/details/journalofea2511965110east/page/71/mode/1up?view=theater</a> <a href="#fnref:5" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:6"><p>Kielland, 1990 Butterflies of Tanzania. Hill House, Melbourne and London: 1-363 <a href="#fnref:6" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:7"><p>Canu, J.G. 1994. Souvenirs entomologiques d'Afrique et des iles voisines (Lepidoptera, Rhopalocera). Lambillionea 94 (3) (Tome I): 311-320 <a href="#fnref:7" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> </ol>