Mimoides pausanias

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Mimoides pausanias
Mounted specimen of Mimoides pausanias on display at Museo di Scienze Naturali Enrico Caffi, Bergamo
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Papilionidae
Tribe: Leptocircini
Genus: Mimoides
Species: M. pausanias
Binomial name
Mimoides pausanias
(Hewitson, 1852)
Synonyms
  • Papilio pausanias Hewitson, 1852
  • Papilio pausanias f. eburneomaculatus Rousseau-Decelle, 1933
  • Papilio pausanias f. celulata Rosa, 1934
  • Papilio cleombrotus Strecker, 1885
  • Papilio hermolaus Guenée, 1872
  • Papilio pausanias prasinus Rothschild & Jordan, 1906
  • Papilio pausanias tabaguita Kaye, 1925

Mimoides pausanias , common name Pausanias Swallowtail, is a species of butterfly in the family Papilionidae.

Description

Mimoides pausanias is a large butterfly with iridescent brown color on the upper surface of the wings. The basal portion of the wings is metallic blue, in the centre of the forewing there is a large white or yellow patch, while the apex of the forewings is pale brown. Also the under surface of the winds is iridescent brown with a yellow patch and a submarginal line of bright red markings on the hind wings.

Distribution

This species can be found in the Neotropical ecozone, in the northern South America, Costa Rica, Trinidad and Tobago, Colombia, Venezuela, Bolivia, Suriname, Brazil and Peru.

Subspecies

  • Mimoides pausanias pausanias (eastern Colombia to Bolivia, Peru, Surinam and Brazil: Amazonas and Pará)
  • Mimoides pausanias cleombrotus (Strecker, 1885) (central Colombia)
  • Mimoides pausanias hermolaus (Guenée, 1872) (Venezuela)
  • Mimoides pausanias prasinus (Rothschild & Jordan, 1906) (Costa Rica)
  • Mimoides pausanias tabaguita (Kaye, 1925) (Trinidad)

Gallery

  • Plate 6 accompanying Hewitson's description in the Transactions of the Entomological Society of London for 1852. Mimoides pausanias is figure 2

  • Illustration from The Macrolepidoptera of the World. Vol. 5.

  • Illustration from Plate XI. South American butterflies

References

  • Collins, N.M., Morris, M.G., IUCN, 1985 Threatened Swallowtail Butterflies of the World: the IUCN Red Data Book 1985 IUCN pdf
  • Lewis, H. L., 1974 Butterflies of the World ISBN 0-245-52097-X Page 23, figure 23

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