Mimoides pausanias

Pausanias swallowtail
Mounted specimen 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
  • Eurytides pausanias[1]

Mimoides pausanias, the Pausanias swallowtail or bluish mimic-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 wings is iridescent brown with a yellow patch and a submarginal line of bright red markings on the hindwings.

Distribution

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

Subspecies

References

  1. ↑ D'Abrera, Bernard. (1984). Butterflies of South America. Victoria, Australia:Hill House.
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