Eurytides

Short description: Genus of butterflies

Eurytides

Eurytides marcellus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:  | Animalia
Phylum:  | Arthropoda
Class:  | Insecta
Order:  | Lepidoptera
Family:  | Papilionidae
Tribe:  | Leptocircini
Genus:  | Eurytides
Hübner, [1821]
Synonyms

* Asiographium Möhn, 2002. Type-species: Papilio asius Fabricius, 1781
* Bellerographium Möhn, 2002. Type species: Eurytides bellerophon (Dalman, 1823)
* Eurygraphium Möhn, 2002. Type-species: Papilio thyastes Drury, 1782
* Neographium Möhn, 2002. Type species: Neographium philolaus (Boisduval, 1836)

Eurytides is a genus of butterflies in the family Papilionidae, found in North, Central, and South America.

## Species

The following species are recognised in the genus Eurytides:[1][2][3]

Subgenus Bellerographium Möhn, 2002

* Eurytides bellerophon (Dahlman, 1823)

Subgenus Eurytides

* Eurytides salvini (Bates, 1864) – Salvin's kite swallowtail
* Eurytides columbus (Kollar, 1850)
* Eurytides orabilis (Butler, 1872) – thick-edged kite swallowtail
* Eurytides serville (Godart, 1824) – Serville swordtail
* Eurytides callias (Rothschild & Jordan, 1906) – Callias kite swallowtail
* Eurytides dolicaon (Cramer, [1776]) – dolicaon kite swallowtail
* Eurytides iphitas Hübner, [1821] – yellow kite swallowtail

Subgenus Neographium  Möhn, 2002:

* Eurytides thyastes Drury, 1782) \- Brazil
* Eurytides calliste (H. Bates, 1864), Yellow kite-swallowtail - Guatemala
* Eurytides dioxippus (Hewitson, [1856]), thick-bordered kite-swallowtail - Colombia
* Eurytides leucaspis (Godart, 1819) \- Peru?
* Eurytides epidaus (E. Doubleday, 1846), Mexican kite-swallowtail - Mexico (Yucatan); Honduras
* Eurytides agesilaus (Guérin-Méneville & Percheron, 1835) \- Mexico to Bolivia & Paraguay
* Eurytides × oberthueri Rothschild & Jordan, 1906 \- Mexico, Honduras Theoretically a natural hydrid between E. agesilaus and E. philolaus.
* Eurytides philolaus (Boisduval, 1836) – dark kite swallowtail - Texas, USA & northern Mexico to Colombia & Venezuela
* Eurytides zonaria (A. Butler, 1869), Hispaniolan kite-swallowtail - Hispaniola
* Eurytides anaxilaus (C. Felder & R. Felder, 1865), small kite-swallowtail - Panama, northern Colombia, N Venezuela
* Eurytides celadon (Lucas, 1852), Cuban kite-swallowtail - Cuba & Isla de Juventud
* Eurytides marcellinus (E. Doubleday, [1845]), Jamaican kite-swallowtail - Jamaica
* Eurytides asius (Fabricius, 1781) \- South America

Subgenus Boreographium Grishin, 2021

* Eurytides marcellus (Cramer, 1777), Zebra swallowtail - eastern USA & Canada

Some species have been moved to genus Mimoides.

## References

1. ↑ "Papilionidae of the Americas 21-XI-2017". https://www.butterfliesofamerica.com/L/Papilionidae.htm.
2. ↑ "A Catalogue of the Butterflies of the United States and Canada by Jonathan P. Pelham". https://www.butterfliesofamerica.com/US-Can-Cat.htm.
3. ↑ taxonomy. "Taxonomy browser (Eurytides)". https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Taxonomy/Browser/wwwtax.cgi?mode=Undef&id=77244&lvl=3&keep=1&srchmode=1&unlock.

* Möhn, Edwin (2002). Schmetterlinge der Erde, Butterflies of the World Part XIIII (14), Papilionidae VIII: Baronia, Euryades, Protographium, Neographium, Eurytides. Edited by Erich Bauer and Thomas Frankenbach Keltern:Goecke & Evers; Canterbury:Hillside Books. ISBN 978-3-931374-87-7 All species and subspecies are included, also most of the forms. Several females are shown the first time in colour.

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