Papilio isidorus

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Papilio isidorus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Division: Rhopalocera
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Papilionidae
Tribe: Papilionini
Genus: Papilio
Species: P. isidorus
Binomial name
Papilio isidorus
Doubleday, 1846
Synonyms
  • Heraclides isidorus
  • Papilio rhodostictus Butler & Druce, 1874
  • Heraclides rhodostictus
  • Papilio ceus Dognin, 1887

Papilio isidorus is a butterfly of the Papilionidae family. It is found in Central and South America.

Description

Forewing on the under surface either without white cell-spot, or the spot small, not extending transversely across the cell. Hindwing posteriorly shorter than in chiansiades, the tail short,narrow: the last submarginal spot more distal than the large spot placed before it. The harpe of the male not dentate. [1]

The wingspan is about 80 mm.

The larvae feed on Citrus and Zanthoxylum species.

Subspecies

  • Papilio isidorus isidorus (Bolivia, Peru) The white patch on the under surface of the fm-ewing usually enters the cell and is often also indicated above; the red spots of the hindwing on the whole larger than in red-spotted specimens of flavescens, the two spots placed between the 2. radial and 2. median separated also on the upper surface - forma chironis R. and J Fore-wing above with 2 white spots between the 2. radial and 2. median and a small cell-spot; the spots beneath much larger, the spot between the 8. radial and 1. median the largest.
  • Papilio isidorus rhodostictus Butler & Druce, 1874 (Costa Rica, Panama)
  • Papilio isidorus flavescens Oberthür, 1879 (Colombia, Ecuador) The white spots on the underside of the forewing reduced. The spot between the 2. and H. radial of the hindwing usually white above or beneath or on both sides.
  • Papilio isidorus brises Rothschild & Jordan, 1906 (Colombia)Fore- wing above without spots, beneath with 2 or 3 spots, but without cell-spot.
  • Papilio isidorus nymphius Rothschild & Jordan, 1906 (Colombia)
  • Papilio isidorus pacificus Rothschild & Jordan, 1906 (Colombia, western Ecuador)
  • Papilio isidorus autana (Racheli & Racheli, 1995) (Venezuela)
  • Papilio isidorus tingo (Racheli & Racheli, 1995) (Peru)

References

  1. 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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