Papilio charopus

Tailed green-banded swallowtail
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Papilionidae
Genus: Papilio
Species: P. charopus
Binomial name
Papilio charopus
Westwood, 1843
Synonyms
  • Papilio charopus juventus Le Cerf, 1924

Papilio charopus, the tailed green-banded swallowtail, is a species of swallowtail butterfly from the genus Papilio that is found in Nigeria, Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, Republic of the Congo, Uganda, Rwanda, and Burundi.[1]

Subspecies

Habitat

Highland forests (Congolian forests, Lower Guinean forests).

Status

Fairly common and not threatened.

Taxonomy

Papilio charopus belongs to a clade called the nireus species group with 13 members. The pattern is black with green bands and spots and the butterflies, although called swallowtails lack tails with the exception of this species Papilio charopus. The clade members are:

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