Euryades duponchelii
Euryades duponchelii | |
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Euryades duponchelii (bottom right) | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Clade: | Euarthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Papilionidae |
Genus: | Euryades |
Species: | E. duponchelii |
Binomial name | |
Euryades duponchelii (Lucas, 1839) | |
Synonyms | |
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Euryades duponchelii is a species of butterfly from the family Papilionidae that is found in Brazil, Argentina, Paraguay, Uruguay, and Bolivia.
It is a woodland species and not threatened.
E. duponcheli unlike Euryades corethrus is tailed.The male is velvety black, with a yellow band of large patches in the middle and on the hindwing also 2 rows of red spots, of which the submarginal row is only indicated above. The female is yellow-brown, black distally and in the cell of the forewing, the macular band above is only indicated by 2 subcostal patches, which are situated on the forewing; the red spots of the hindwing above are vivid red.The under surface for the most part is grey-yellow. [1]
- Seitz
The larvae feed on Aristolochia species.[2]
The two species in the genus Euryades are more closely related to Cressida than to other South American Papilionidae with larvae that feed on Aristolochia.
References
- ↑ Seitz, A. ed. Band 1: Abt. 1,
Die Großschmetterlinge des palaearktischen Faunengebietes, Die palaearktischen Tagfalter, 1909, 379 Seiten, mit 89
kolorierten Tafeln (3470 Figuren)
This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain. - ↑ Euryades at Funet
- Edwin Möhn, 2002 Schmetterlinge der Erde, Butterflies of the world Part XIIII (14), Papilionidae VIII: Baronia, Euryades, Protographium, Neographium, Eurytides. Edited by Erich Bauer and Thomas Frankenbach Keltern: Goecke & Evers; Canterbury: Hillside Books. ISBN 978-3-931374-87-7 All species and subspecies are included, also most of the forms. Several females are shown the first time in colour.
- 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.
- Lewis, H. L., 1974 Butterflies of the World ISBN 0-245-52097-X Page 23, figure 6.
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