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Narrative
Papilio genus in Africa can be broken into six different groups as follows:
Typical fluted swallowtails
Papilio lormieri group
Papilio demoleus group
Gallienus group
Nireus group
Cynorta group
The species of the typical fluted swallowtails are listed below (an * indicates that this species is pictured):
SPECIES - - - - LOCATION
Papilio constantinus* - East and south Africa
Papilio dardanus* - Most of Africa and Madagascar
Papilio hesperus* - Most of Africa
Papilio euphranor - Highlands of South Africa
Papilio horribilis - West Africa
Papilio leucotania* - Uganda
Papilio mackinonni* - South and east Africa
Papilio nobilis* - East Africa
Papilio pelodorus* - Highlands of east Africa
Papilio phorcas* - Most of Africa
Papilio rex* - Southeast Africa
(not pictured)
Papilio horribilis might be a form of Papilio pelodorus.
Taxonomy
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Latin
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English
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Kingdom
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Animalia
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Animal
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Phylum
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Arthropoda
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Jointed Legged Animals
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Class
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Insecta
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Insects
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Order
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Lepidoptera
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Butterflies And Moths
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Family
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Papilionidae
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Swallowtails
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SubFamily
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Papilio - fluted Africa
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Swallowtails - Africa Fluted
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References
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| Genus | Species |
| Cytheitis | rhodopteron |
| Cytheitis | schultzei |
| Graphium | arcesilaus |
| Graphium | earis |
| Graphium | hipparchus |
| Graphium | iphitas |
| Graphium | orthosilaus |
| Iphimedeia | niepelti |
| Iphimedeia | richardus |
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