Papilio dardanus (Brown, 1776)

Subspecies

• [Papilio] dardanus dardanus (Brown, 1776)
  - merope (Cramer, [1777])
  - brutus (Fabricius, 1781)
  - hippocoon (Fabricius, 1793)
  - westermannii (Boisduval, 1836)
  - trophonius (Westwood, 1842)
  - dionysos (Doubleday, [1846])
  - niobe (Aurivillius, [1898])
  - nioboides (Aurivillius, [1898])
  - heimsi (Suffert, 1904)
  - benio (Suffert, 1904)
  - trophonissa (Aurivillius, 1907)
  - alluaudi (Boullet & Le Cerf, 1912)
  - latemarginatus (Schultze, 1913)
  - sirius (Reuss, 1921)
  - crocotus (Poulton, 1923)
  - ceneispila (Le Cerf, 1924)
  - fagerskioldi (Bryk, 1928)
  - punctata (Dufrane, 1933)
  - divisa (Dufrane, 1933)
  - bipunctata (Dufrane, 1933)
  - paradoxa (Dufrane, 1946)
  - completa (Dufrane, 1946)
  - subpunctata (Dufrane, 1946)
  - dawanti (Dufrane, 1946)
  - impunctata (Dufrane, 1946)
  - jottrandi (Dufrane, 1946)
  - extrema (Dufrane, 1946)
  - semimelas (Basquin & Turlin, 1986)
  

Adult morphology	Wingspan	50
Literature references	Species number (Larsen 2005)	4
	Page number (Ackery et al. 1995)	141
Habitat	Habitat preference [1]	ALF: Generally found in all types of forest ALF
Distribution	Geographical distribution [2]	WWT: Found in both the Liberia and Ghana subregions and extending to the coastal forests of East Africa WWT

Identification

More on Lepidoptera in West African Tropical Rainforest.

Biology

Flight period:

Ecology

Host plants:

• Monimiaceae
  - Xymalos

• Rutaceae
  - Calodendrum
  - Citrus
  - Clausena
  - Fagara
  - Teclea
  - Toddalia
  - Vepris

• Monimiaceae
  - Xymalos
• Rutaceae
  - Calodendrum
  - Citrus
  - Clausena
  - Fagara
  - Teclea
  - Toddalia
  - Vepris