Papilio mackinnoni, the Mackinnon's swallowtail, is a species of swallowtail butterfly from the genus Papilio that is found in Kenya, Tanzania, Malawi, Zambia, Angola, Uganda, Zaire, South Sudan, the Republic of the Congo, Rwanda and Burundi.
The larvae feed on Rutaceae, Clausema, Toddalia, Citrus, Teclea simplicifolia, T. nobilis and T. tricocarpa.
Subspecies Papilio mackinnoni mackinnoni (southern Sudan, Republic of the Congo, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, Kenya, north-eastern Tanzania) Papilio mackinnoni benguellae Jordan, 1908 Jordan, K. 1908a. Some new and some unfigured Lepidoptera. Novitates Zoologicae 15: 253-258. (highlands of central Angola) Papilio mackinnoni theodori Riley, 1921Riley, 1921 Notes on the Rhopalocera of the Dollman Collection Trans. ent. Soc. Lond. 1921 (1-2) : 234-259, pl. 4-7 [ Full text] (southern Zaire, north-western Zambia) Papilio mackinnoni isokae (Hancock, 1984) Hancock, D. L. 1984 Arnoldia Zimbabwe 9 (12): 187 (north-eastern Zambia, western Tanzania, northern Malawi) Papilio mackinnoni mpwapwana Kielland, 1990 Kielland, 1990 Butterflies of Tanzania. Hill House, Melbourne and London: 1-363 (eastern Tanzania) Papilio mackinnoni reductofascia Kielland, 1990 (northern Tanzania, southern Kenya)
Habitat Congolian forests and Albertine Rift montane forests.
Biogeographic realm This species is located in the Afrotropical realm.
References
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)
External links Butterfly Corner Images from Naturhistorisches Museum Wien