Eurytides leucaspis is a species of butterfly found in the Neotropical realm.

Eurytides leucaspis
Mounted specimen
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Papilionidae
Genus: Eurytides
Species:
E. leucaspis
Binomial name
Eurytides leucaspis
(Godart, 1819) [1]
Synonyms
  • Papilio leucaspis Godart, 1819
  • Papilio leucaspis lamis Rothschild & Jordan, 1906 (preocc. Cramer, 1779)
  • Protographium leucaspis (Godart, 1819)

Taxonomy

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There are two subspecies recognised:

  • E. l. leucaspis - northern Colombia, eastern Ecuador, northern Peru, Bolivia
  • E. l. lamidis Brown & Lamas, 1994 - western Venezuela (Tachira), Colombia

Description

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Eurytides leucaspis can reach a wingspan of almost 10 cm (3.9 in). These large butterflies have a frons entirely brownish black. The abdomen is yellowish beneath. The wings have a common triangular green-yellow area, and a brown marginal area with blackish hues parallel to the margin.

lamis R.& J. The posterior cell-spots of the forewing is large, very distinct also beneath.

leucaspis Godt. The cell-spots of the forewing is smaller, usually only indicated beneath, the two outer posterior cell-spots arte more widely separated from one another.[2]

Distribution

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This species is present in Colombia, eastern Ecuador, northern Peru, Bolivia and western Venezuela.[1]

Status

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Common and not threatened.[3]

References

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  1. ^ a b Protographium at Funet
  2. ^ Karl Jordan, 1916 Papilio In A. Seitz (editor), Macrolepidoptera of the world,vol. 5: 617–738. Stuttgart: Alfred Kernen [1] also available as pdf
  3. ^ Collins, N. Mark; Morris, Michael G. (1985). Threatened Swallowtail Butterflies of the World: The IUCN Red Data Book. Gland & Cambridge: IUCN. ISBN 978-2-88032-603-6 – via Biodiversity Heritage Library.

Further reading

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  • D'Abrera, B. (1981). Butterflies of the Neotropical Region. Part I. Papilionidae and Pieridae. Lansdowne Editions, Melbourne, xvi + 172 pp.
  • D'Almeida, R.F. (1965). Catalogo dos Papilionidae Americanos. Sociedade Brasileira de Entomologia. São Paulo, Brasil.
  • Rothschild, W. and Jordan, K. (1906). A revision of the American Papilios. Novitates Zoologicae 13: 411-752. online (and as pdf) (Facsimile edition ed. P.H. Arnaud, 1967).
  • Tyler, H. A.; Brown Jr., K. S.; Wilson, K. H. (1994) Swallowtail Butterflies of the Americas. A Study in Biological Dynamics, Ecological Diversity, Biosystematics, and Conservation., Tyler, H. A.; Brown Jr., K. S.; Wilson, K. H. (1994) Swallowtail Butterflies of the Americas. A Study in Biological Dynamics, Ecological Diversity, Biosystematics, and Conservation. , Scientific Publishers, Gainesville, Florida.
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