Papilio sjoestedti

Papilio sjoestedti
Conservation status
Near Threatened  (IUCN 2.3) [1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Papilionidae
Genus:	Papilio
Species:	P. sjoestedti
Binomial name
Papilio sjoestedti Aurivillius, 1908

Papilio sjoestedti, the Kilimanjaro swallowtail, is a species of butterfly in the family Papilionidae. It is endemic to Tanzania.

Description

In 1960, Robert Herbert Carcasson wrote: "Male very similar to above (fulleborni), but white band very narrow in both wings. Female similar to above (fulleborni), but ochreous discal area of hindwing much smaller. Both sexes may be distinguished from all other species of the group by the very much darker underside."

Taxonomy

Papilio sjoestedti is a member of the echerioides species-group. This clade includes:

• Papilio echerioides Trimen, 1868
• Papilio fuelleborni Karsch, 1900
• Papilio jacksoni Sharpe, 1891
• Papilio sjoestedti Aurivillius, 1908

It is mostly treated as a subspecies of Papilio fuelleborni.^[2]

Etymology

It was named for Swedish naturalist Bror Yngve Sjöstedt.

References

1. M. Gimenez Dixon (1996). "Papilio sjoestedti". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2.3 (2.3). International Union for Conservation of Nature. Retrieved July 31, 2007.
2. Afrotropical Butterflies: File C – Papilionidae - Tribe Papilionini

• 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