Papilio warscewiczii | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Papilionidae |
Genus: | Papilio |
Species: | P. warscewiczii
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Binomial name | |
Papilio warscewiczii Hopffer, 1866
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Papilio warscewiczii is a Neotropical species of swallowtail butterfly from the genus Papilio that is found in Peru, Bolivia and Ecuador.[1]
Montane forest in the Bolivian Yungas ecoregion. The larval food plant is not recorded .[2]
Papilio warscewiczii is a member of the homerus species group. The members of this clade are
and the enigmatic Papilio judicael known only from a handful of specimens and either a valid species from the Andean region, or a hybrid P. menatius × P. warscewiczii.
Papilio warscewiczii is in the subgenus Pterourus Scopoli, 1777 which also includes the species groups: troilus species group, glaucus species group, the zagreus species group and the scamander species group.
Named for the collector Józef Warszewicz