Baronia brevicornis
Baronia brevicornis, the Short-horned Baronia is a species of butterfly in the Papilionidae family. It is monotypic within the genus Baronia. It is endemic to Mexico.
The species is found in a very small area of Mexico and is of particular importance due to its relict nature and uncertain relationship to other subfamilies such as the Parnassiinae. It is now considered to represent the monotypic subfamily Baroniinae. The butterfly is considered as the most primitive extant papilionid taxon and shares some features with the fossil taxon Praepapilio.
Morphological characteristics include an abdominal scent organ in females.[2][3]
The distribution of the species in Mexico is patchy and restricted.[4][5]
Baronia is unique among swallowtail butterflies in having an Acacia species, Acacia cochliacanha (family Leguminosae) as its larval foodplant.[6][7]
The genus is named after a Mr Baron who collected the first specimen in the Sierra Madre region of Mexico. The species was then described by Salvin.[8]
References
- ^ M. Gimenez Dixon (1996). "Baronia brevicornis". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2.3. International Union for Conservation of Nature. http://www.iucnredlist.org/apps/redlist/details/2594. Retrieved July 31, 2007.
- ^ Robbins, Robert K. (1989). "Systematic implications of butterfly leg structures that clean the antennae". Psyche 96: 209–222. http://psyche.entclub.org/96/96-209.html.
- ^ Häuser, C. L. (1992). "A new abdominal scent organ in females of Baronia brevicornis (Lepidoptera: Papilionidae)". Zoologischer Anzeiger 229 (1/2): 54–62.
- ^ Luis-Martinez, A.; J Llorente-Bousquets, Isable Vargas-Fernandez & A. D. Warren (2003). "Biodiversity and biogeography of Mexican butterflies (Lepidoptera: Papilionoidea and Hesperioidea)" (PDF). Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 105 (1): 209–224. http://www.mariposasmexicanas.com/docs/Papilionoidea-Hesperioidea_Biodiversity-Biogeography.pdf.
- ^ Llorente-Bousquets, J & A. Luis-Martinez (1993) Conservation-oriented analysis of Mexican butterflies: Papilionidae (Lepidoptera, Papilionoidea). In Ramammorthy, T.P., J. Fa, R. Bye y A. Lot (Eds.). 1993. The biological diversity of Mexico: origins and distributions. Oxford University Press. PDF
- ^ Collins, N. Mark; Collins, Michael G. (1985). Threatened Swallowtails of the World:the IUCN red data book. IUCN Protected Area Programme Series. Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, U.K.: IUCN. pp. 401 & 8 plates. ISBN 9782880326036. http://books.google.co.in/books?id=RomV7uO_t9YC. Retrieved 22 October 2010.
- ^ Savela, Marrku (16 Feb 2008). "Baronia". Lepidoptera and some other life forms. nic.funet.fi. http://www.nic.funet.fi/index/Tree_of_life/insecta/lepidoptera/ditrysia/papilionoidea/papilionidae/baroniinae/baronia/index.html. Retrieved 09 November 2010.
- ^ http://www.sil.si.edu/digitalcollections/bca/bca_14_02_00/pdf/bca_14_02_00_740.pdf
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