Papilio hornimani hornimani Distant, 1879

Takano, Hitoshi, László, Gyula M. & Collins, Steve C., 2021, Notes on some Tanzanian butterfly specimens in the Suffert Collection: a case of patria falsa, Zootaxa 4964 (3), pp. 585-597 : 589

Papilio hornimani hornimani Distant, 1879

Vane-Wright & Liseki (2008) studied all of the specimens of Papilio hornimani in the NHMUK collections of which one of the questionable localities was ‘ Lindi’ 19. According to the catalogue, Suffert owned two males and one female, all three specimens being present in the Joicey Bequest. One male and one female are from ‘ Lindi’ , carrying the following labels: ‘// horn. / Lindi [handwritten in Suffert’s hand; label with black border and trimmed at base (illustrated in fig. 3 )] // Ex. Coll. / Suffert. / 1912. // Joicey / Bequest. / Brit.Mus. / 1934–120. //’ (the first label on the female specimen has in addition a handwritten ‘ ♀ ’). The other specimen is labelled as being from Ukerewe Island 20 in Lake Victoria (which is certainly patria falsa). It has the following label: ‘// horn. / Ukerewe [handwritten in Suffert’s hand; label with black border and trimmed at base] // Ex. Coll. / Suffert. / 1912. // Joicey / Bequest. / Brit.Mus. / 1934–120. //’. All three specimens belong to the nominate taxon which is distributed in north-eastern Tanzania ( South Pare and Usambara Mountains ). Two further subspecies are recognised: spp. mbulu Kielland, 1990 is distributed in the volcanic northern highlands of Tanzania and southern Kenya whilst spp. mwanihanae Kielland , 1987 is restricted to the lowland forests on the eastern slopes of the Udzungwa Mountains in central Tanzania. Suffert’s specimens once again likely originate from Usambara .

Figures

FIGURES 1–6. Handwritten locality labels in Suffert’s hand. 1. holotype female of Charaxes maudei. 2. paratype female of Charaxes pembanus usambarae 3. male specimen of Papilio hornimani hornimani. 4. paratype male of Acraea excelsior usambarae. 5. female specimen of Junonia westermanni splendens. 6. male specimen of Graphium illyris.