''Papilio grosesmithi'' is a species of
butterfly
Butterflies are insects in the macrolepidopteran clade Rhopalocera from the order Lepidoptera, which also includes moths. Adult butterflies have large, often brightly coloured wings, and conspicuous, fluttering flight. The group comprise ...
in the family
Papilionidae
Swallowtail butterflies are large, colorful butterflies in the family Papilionidae, and include over 550 species. Though the majority are tropical, members of the family inhabit every continent except Antarctica. The family includes the larg ...
. It is
endemic
Endemism is the state of a species being found in a single defined geographic location, such as an island, state, nation, country or other defined zone; organisms that are indigenous to a place are not endemic to it if they are also found else ...
to
Madagascar
Madagascar (; mg, Madagasikara, ), officially the Republic of Madagascar ( mg, Repoblikan'i Madagasikara, links=no, ; french: République de Madagascar), is an island country in the Indian Ocean, approximately off the coast of East Africa ...
. The habitat consists of forests.
Taxonomy
''Papilio grosesmithi'' is a member of the ''demodocus''
species-group. The
clade members are:
*''
Papilio demodocus
''Papilio demodocus'', the citrus swallowtail or Christmas butterfly, is a swallowtail butterfly which commonly occurs over the entirety of sub-Saharan Africa, including Madagascar, besides the southern Arabian Peninsula. The caterpillars feed ...
''
Esper, 1799
*''
Papilio demoleus''
Linnaeus, 1758
*''
Papilio erithonioides''
Grose-Smith, 1891
*''Papilio grosesmithi''
Rothschild, 1926
*''
Papilio morondavana''
Grose-Smith, 1891
References
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External links
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Butterflies described in 1926
grosesmithi
Lepidoptera of Madagascar
Butterflies of Africa
Taxonomy articles created by Polbot
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