Papilio phorcas
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The Apple-green Swallowtail or Green Banded Swallowtail (Papilio phorcas) is a butterfly
of the Papilionidae family. It is found in Africa
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Butterfly
A butterfly is a mainly day-flying insect of the order Lepidoptera, which includes the butterflies and moths. Like other holometabolous insects, the butterfly's life cycle consists of four parts: egg, larva, pupa and adult. Most species are diurnal. Butterflies have large, often brightly coloured...
of the Papilionidae family. It is found in Africa
Africa
Africa is the world's second largest and second most populous continent, after Asia. At about 30.2 million km² including adjacent islands, it covers 6% of the Earth's total surface area and 20.4% of the total land area...
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Subspecies
- Papilio phorcas phorcas (Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Benin, Nigeria)
- Papilio phorcas ansorgei Rothschild, 1896 (Kenya (highland forest east of the Rift Valley))
- Papilio phorcas congoanus Rothschild, 1896 (Nigeria, Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Congo, Central African Republic, northern Angola, Congo Republic, western Uganda, western Tanzania, N.Zambia)
- Papilio phorcas nyikanus Rothschild & Jordan, 1903 (highland forest of north-eastern Zambia, Malawi and eastern Tanzania)
- Papilio phorcas ruscoei Krüger, 1928 (eastern Uganda, Kenya (highlands west of the Rift Valley)
- Papilio phorcas sudanicola Storace, 1965 (southern Sudan)
- Papilio phorcas tenuifasciatus Kielland, 1990 (northern Tanzania, Kenya)
- Papilio phorcas bardamu Canu, 1994 (Bioko Island)