Papilio microps is a species of swallowtail butterfly from the genus Papilio that is found in Ethiopia and Somalia.
Taxonomy
Papilio microps belongs to an Afrotropical clade called the nireus species group with 15 members. The pattern is black with green bands and spots and the butterflies, although called swallowtails lack tails with the exception of Papilio charopus and Papilio hornimani. The clade members are:
- Papilio aristophontes <small>Oberthür, 1897</small>
- Papilio nireus <small>Linnaeus, 1758</small>
- Papilio charopus <small>Westwood, 1843</small>
- Papilio chitondensis <small>de Sousa & Fernandes, 1966</small>
- Papilio chrapkowskii <small>Suffert, 1904</small>
- Papilio chrapkowskoides <small>Storace, 1952</small>
- Papilio desmondi <small>van Someren, 1939</small>
- Papilio hornimani <small>Distant, 1879</small>
- Papilio interjectana <small>Vane-Wright, 1995</small>
- Papilio manlius <small>Fabricius, 1798</small>
- Papilio microps <small>Storace, 1951</small>
- Papilio sosia <small>Rothschild & Jordan, 1903</small>
- Papilio thuraui <small>Karsch, 1900</small>
- Papilio ufipa <small>Carcasson, 1961</small>
- Papilio wilsoni <small>Rothschild, 1926</small>
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