Protesilaus earis
| Protesilaus earis | |
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| Protesilaus earis and related species in Seitz Fauna Americana | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Papilionidae |
| Genus: | Protesilaus |
| Species: | P. earis |
| Binomial name | |
| Protesilaus earis (Rothschild & Jordan, 1906) [1] | |
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Protesilaus earis, Rothschild's Swordtail, is a species of butterfly found in the Neotropical ecozone (southeast Brazil, Paraguay, Argentina).
Description
Antenna dark yellowish brown. Frons yellowish at the sides. Wings slightly yellowish, beneath slightly reddish ; bands narrow, 4. band of the forewing reduced to a small spot, 6. band close to the lower angle of the cell; the yellowish marginal and submarginal spots of the hindwing narrow, above and beneath smaller than in the name-typical protesilaus ; hindwing beneath with long arrow-shaped patch before the abdominal margin, this patch reduced in protesilaus. Dorsal margin of the harpe slightly widened, ventral process non-dentate, not extending to the lower edge of the clasper, central process short, broad, spatulate, strongly dentate.Eastern Ecuador, widely distributed.[2]
Status
Uncommon and little known. No known threats [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
- ↑ Protesilaus at Funet
- ↑ Karl Jordan, 1916 Papilio In A. Seitz (editor), Macrolepidoptera of the world vol. 5: 617–738. Stuttgart: Alfred Kernen also available as pdf
- ↑ Collins, N.M. & Morris, M.G. (1985) Threatened Swallowtail Butterflies of the World. IUCN. ISBN 2-88032-603-6 pdf
External links
- Butterflies of the Americas Images of Holotype.