Graphium policenoides
| Graphium policenoides | |
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| Graphium policenoides forma nigrescens | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Papilionidae |
| Genus: | Graphium |
| Species: | G. policenoides
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| Binomial name | |
| Graphium policenoides | |
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Graphium policenoides is a
Papilionidae (swallowtails). It is found in Cameroon, Gabon, the Republic of the Congo and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.[3] Its habitat consists of wet forests
in good condition.
It is very similar to Graphium policenes and Graphium liponesco [4]
Taxonomy
It is a member of the Graphium policenes-clade (policenes, Graphium liponesco, Graphium biokoensis, Graphium policenoides, Graphium porthaon.)
Aurivillius in Seitz places nigrescens (policenoides), Royal Museum of Central Africa.
References
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- ^ Holland, W.J. 1892 Descriptions of some new species of African Lepidoptera. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (6) 10: 284-295.
- ^ Graphium, Site of Markku Savela
- ^ Afrotropical Butterflies: File C – Papilionidae - Tribe Leptocercini
- ^ Larsen, T.B. , 1994 Graphium policenes (Cramer, 1775), Graphium policenoides (Holland, 1892), and Graphium liponesco (Suffert, 1904) three closely related taxa (Lepidoptera; Papilionidae) Lambillionea. Juin; 942: 148-156 (Tome I)
- ^ Aurivillius, [P.O.]C. 1908-1924. In: Seitz, A. Die Großschmetterlinge der Erde Band 13: Abt. 2, Die exotischen Großschmetterlinge, Die afrikanischen Tagfalter, 1925, 613 Seiten, 80 Tafeln
(The Macrolepidoptera of the World 13).Alfred Kernen Verlag, Stuttgart.
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