Papilio fuelleborni is a species of swallowtail butterfly from the genus Papilio that is found in Tanzania and Malawi.Papilio at Funet
The larvae feed on Clausena species.
Description The male is deep black, with a pure white median band, very narrow in forewing, very wide in hindwing. The female is similar to other species of the group but with large white spots on the hindwing, placed at the margin (Carcasson, 1960).
Subspecies Papilio fuelleborni fuelleborni (eastern and southern Tanzania, northern Malawi) Papilio fuelleborni sjoestedti Aurivillius, 1908 (northern Tanzania) Papilio fuelleborni atavus Le Cerf, 1912 Le Cerf, F. 1912 Descriptions de Lepidopteres nouveaux d’Afrique orientale (Papilionide).Bulletin de la Société Entomologique de France 1912: 336-337. (northern Tanzania) Papilio fuelleborni rydoni Kielland, 1987 Kielland, 1987, J. 1987 New taxa of Rhopalocera from Tanzania (Lepidoptera: Papilionidae). Lambillionea 87 (9-10): 114-126 (north-eastern Tanzania)
Taxonomy
Papilio fuelleborni 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
See also Friedrich Fülleborn
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