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Papilio microps
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| Papilio microps | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Papilionidae |
| Genus: | Papilio |
| Species: | P. microps
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| Binomial name | |
| Papilio microps Storace, 1951[1]
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Papilio microps is a species of swallowtail butterfly from the genus Papilio that is found in Ethiopia and Somalia.[2]
Taxonomy
[edit]Papilio microps belongs to an Afrotropical clade called the nireus species group with 15 members. The pattern is black with green bands and spots and the butterflies, although called swallowtails lack tails with the exception of Papilio charopus and Papilio hornimani. The clade members are:
- Papilio aristophontes Oberthür, 1897
- Papilio nireus Linnaeus, 1758
- Papilio charopus Westwood, 1843
- Papilio chitondensis de Sousa & Fernandes, 1966
- Papilio chrapkowskii Suffert, 1904
- Papilio chrapkowskoides Storace, 1952
- Papilio desmondi van Someren, 1939
- Papilio hornimani Distant, 1879
- Papilio interjectana Vane-Wright, 1995
- Papilio manlius Fabricius, 1798
- Papilio microps Storace, 1951
- Papilio sosia Rothschild & Jordan, 1903
- Papilio thuraui Karsch, 1900
- Papilio ufipa Carcasson, 1961
- Papilio wilsoni Rothschild, 1926
References
[edit]- ^ Storace, L. 1951-1952. Recherches sur le groupe africain de Papilio nireus L. Lambillionea 51: 44-52; 54-57; 73-76; 52: 9-11; 14-20; 30-35; 75-76.
- ^ Papilio at Funet
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