Papilio erostratus

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Papilio erostratus
Plate accompanying Westwood's 1847 description
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Papilionidae
Genus: Papilio
Species: P. erostratus
Binomial name
Papilio erostratus
Westwood, 1847
Synonyms

Papilio rhetus Gray, [1853]

Papilio erostratus is a species of swallowtail butterfly from the genus Papilio that is found in Guatemala, Costa Rica, Belize and Mexico.[1]

Description

Plate from Seitz The Macrolepidoptera of the World showing both Papilio erostratus and Papilio rogeri pharnaces

Very similar to Papilio pharnaces but in the male the spots on the upper surface of the hindwing yellowish white. In the female the spots red also above, larger than in the female of pharnaces the marginal spots of both wings also somewhat larger than in the foregoing species. Tail long and narrow. Sympatric with pharnaces in West Mexico.[2]

Biology

Commonest in hilly country at a height of about 1,500 m (approximately 5,000 ft.).

Subspecies

  • Papilio erostratus erostratus (Guatemala, Costa Rica, Belize)
  • Papilio erostratus erostratinus Vázquez, 1947 (Mexico)
  • Papilio erostratus vazquezae Beutelspacher, 1986 (Mexico)

Ecozone

This species is located in the neotropical ecozone.

References

  1. ↑ Papilio at Funet
  2. ↑ Jordan, K. , in Seitz, A. ( 1907) . The Macrolepidoptera of the World. 5: The Macrolepidoptera of the American faunistic region. Papilionidae 1-45


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