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[Spialia spio (Linnaeus)]
Papilio.spio Linne, 1767: 796 (Cape of Good Hope).
= Papilio vindex Stoll, 1781 [1775-1791], 4: 122; pi. 353, figs. G, H (Cape of Good Hope).
Although this species has not been recorded from Liberia, it is to be expected there since Berger (1962: 451) records it from Ivory Coast, and Evans (1937: 62) mentions specimens from "Guinea to Angola" among material from practically all of Africa south of the Sahara. In the Carnegie Museum series there are specimens from Cameroon, Gabon, Angola, Congo, Uganda, Kenya and South Africa.
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bibliographic citation
Fox, R.M., Lindsey, A.W., Clench, H.K., Miller, L.D. 1965. The Butterflies of Liberia. Memoirs of the American Entomological Society vol. 19. Philadelphia, USA