Protographium leucaspis

Protographium leucaspis is a species of butterfly found in the Neotropical ecozone

Protographium leucaspis
Protographium thyastes and related species in Adalbert Seitz's Fauna Americana
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Insecta
Order:
Lepidoptera
Family:
Papilionidae
Genus:
Protographium
Species:
P. leucaspis
Binomial name
Protographium leucaspis
(Godart, 1819) [1]
Synonyms
  • Papilio leucaspis Godart, 1819
  • Papilio leucaspis lamis Rothschild & Jordan, 1906 (preocc. Cramer, 1779)

Subspecies

Description

Frons entirely brownish black; abdomen yellowish beneath; the wings with commontriangular green-yellow area; the brown marginal area with blackish hues parallel to the margin. Colombia to Bolivia; a very common species in the Andes.

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

leucaspis Godt. The cell-spots of the forewing smaller, usually only indicated beneath, the two outer posterior cell-spots more widely separated from one another. Eastern slopes of the Andes, from Ecuador to Bolivia. [2]

Status

Common and not threatened.[3]

Further reading
  • 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).

References
  1. Protographium at Funet
  2. Karl Jordan, 1916 Papilio In A. Seitz (editor), Macrolepidoptera of the world,vol. 5: 617–738. Stuttgart: Alfred Kernen 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.


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