Papilio sosia

Papilio sosia
Papilio sosia
Papilio sosia on display in Musée zoologique de la ville de Strasbourg
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Papilionidae
Tribe: Papilionini
Genus: Papilio
Species: P. sosia
Binomial name
Papilio sosia
Rothschild and Jordan ,1903

Papilio sosia, the Medium green-banded swallowtail, is a butterfly of the Papilionidae family. It is found in Africa.

Subspecies include

  • P. s. sosia (Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Benin, S.Nigeria, W.Cameroon)
  • P. s. pulchra Berger, 1950 (Cameroon, Gabon, Congo, Central African Republic , N.Angola, Congo Republic)
  • P. s. debilis Storace, 1951 (Uganda NW.Tanzania)


The larva feeds on Zanthoxylum and Citrus

References

  • Larsen, T. B., Apollo Books, 2005 Butterflies of West Africa Apollo Books ISBN 87-88757-43-9
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