Graphium porthaon
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Graphium porthaon, the coastal swordtail, cream-striped swordtail or dark swordtail, is a species of butterfly in the family Papilionidae, found in tropical western Africa.[2][3]
The wingspan is 55–60 mm in males and 60–65 mm in females. The species has continuous broods during warmer months.[3]
The larva feed on Artabotrys monteiroae, Annona, Uvaria, Friesodielsia obovata, Cleistochlamys kirkii, Monodora junodii, Monanthotaxis caffra, Uvaria caffra, and Uvaria kirkii.[2][3]
Subspecies
- G. p. porthaon (Hewitson, 1865) (coast of Kenya, Tanzania, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Angola, Malawi, Zambia, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, northern Botswana, Namibia, South Africa, Swaziland)
- G. p. tanganyikae Kielland, 1978 [4] (Tanzania: Kigoma district)
- G. p. mackiei Collins & Larsen, 1991 [5](Kenya, Tanzania)
References
Wikispecies has information related to Graphium porthaon.
- ^ Hewitson, W.C. in [1865] in Hewitson,W.C. [1862-6]. Illustrations of new species of exotic butterflies 3: 4 [124 pp.]. London.
- ^ a b Graphium, funet.fi
- ^ a b c Woodhall, Steve (2005). Field Guide to Butterflies of South Africa. Cape Town, South Africa: Struik. ISBN 978-1-86872-724-7.
- ^ Kielland, J. 1978. A provisional checklist of the Rhopalocera of the eastern side of Lake Tanganyika. Tijdschrift voor Entomologie 121 (4): 147-237.
- ^ Collins , S.C. and Larsen, T.B. 1991. Description of new genera, species, and subspecies discovered as part of the research for the book The butterflies of Kenya and their natural history. in Larsen-T, B The Butterflies of Kenya and their Natural History. Oxford University Press, Oxford: i-xxi, 1-490
- Carcasson, R.H. 1960 "The Swallowtail Butterflies of East Africa (Lepidoptera, Papilionidae)". Journal of the East Africa Natural History Society pdf 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
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