''Papilio chitondensis'' is a
species
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of
swallowtail butterfly from the
genus
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Papilio
''Papilio'' is a genus in the swallowtail butterfly family, Papilionidae, as well as the only representative of the tribe Papilionini. The word ''papilio'' is Latin for butterfly.
It includes the common yellow swallowtail (''Papilio machaon''), ...
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Angola
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Taxonomy
''Papilio chitondensis'' belongs to a
clade called the ''nireus''
species group
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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:
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Papilio aristophontes''
Oberthür, 1897
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Papilio nireus''
Linnaeus, 1758
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Papilio charopus''
Westwood, 1843
*''Papilio chitondensis''
de Sousa & Fernandes, 1966
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Papilio chrapkowskii''
Suffert, 1904
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Papilio chrapkowskoides''
Storace, 1952
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Papilio desmondi''
van Someren, 1939
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Papilio hornimani''
Distant, 1879
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Papilio interjectana''
Vane-Wright, 1995
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Papilio manlius''
Fabricius, 1798
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Papilio microps''
Storace, 1951
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Papilio sosia''
Rothschild & Jordan, 1903
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Papilio thuraui
''Papilio thuraui'' is a species of swallowtail butterfly from the genus ''Papilio'' that is found in Tanzania, Malawi, Zambia and the Republic of the Congo.
Description
Blue median band absent and a complete series of blue submarginal spots i ...
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Karsch, 1900
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Papilio ufipa''
Carcasson, 1961
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Papilio wilsoni''
Rothschild, 1926
References
Endemic fauna of Angola
chitondensis
Butterflies described in 1966
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