Eurytides leucaspis

Species of butterfly

Eurytides leucaspis

Mounted specimen
Scientific classification
Kingdom:  | Animalia
Phylum:  | Arthropoda
Class:  | Insecta
Order:  | Lepidoptera
Family:  | Papilionidae
Genus:  | Eurytides
Species:  |

E. leucaspis

Binomial name
Eurytides leucaspis

(Godart, 1819) [1]

Synonyms

* Papilio leucaspis Godart, 1819
* Papilio leucaspis lamis Rothschild & Jordan, 1906 (preocc. Cramer, 1779)
* Protographium leucaspis (Godart, 1819)

Eurytides leucaspis is a species of butterfly found in the Neotropical realm.

## Taxonomy

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There are two subspecies recognised:

* E. l. leucaspis \- northern Colombia, eastern Ecuador, northern Peru, Bolivia
* E. l. lamidis Brown & Lamas, 1994 \- western Venezuela (Tachira), Colombia

## Description

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Eurytides leucaspis can reach a wingspan of almost 10 cm (3.9 in). These large butterflies have a frons entirely brownish black. The abdomen is yellowish beneath. The wings have a common triangular green-yellow area, and a brown marginal area with blackish hues parallel to the margin.

lamis R.& J. The posterior cell-spots of the forewing is large, very distinct also beneath.

leucaspis Godt. The cell-spots of the forewing is smaller, usually only indicated beneath, the two outer posterior cell-spots arte more widely separated from one another.[2]

## Distribution

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This species is present in Colombia, eastern Ecuador, northern Peru, Bolivia and western Venezuela.[1]

## Status

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Common and not threatened.[3]

## References

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1. ^ a b Protographium at Funet
2. ^ Karl Jordan, 1916 Papilio In A. Seitz (editor), Macrolepidoptera of the world,vol. 5: 617–738. Stuttgart: Alfred Kernen [1] also available as pdf
3. ^ Collins, N. Mark; Morris, Michael G. (1985). Threatened Swallowtail Butterflies of the World: The IUCN Red Data Book. Gland & Cambridge: IUCN. ISBN 978-2-88032-603-6 – via Biodiversity Heritage Library.

## Further reading

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* 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).
* Tyler, H. A.; Brown Jr., K. S.; Wilson, K. H. (1994) Swallowtail Butterflies of the Americas. A Study in Biological Dynamics, Ecological Diversity, Biosystematics, and Conservation., Tyler, H. A.; Brown Jr., K. S.; Wilson, K. H. (1994) Swallowtail Butterflies of the Americas. A Study in Biological Dynamics, Ecological Diversity, Biosystematics, and Conservation. , Scientific Publishers, Gainesville, Florida.

## External links

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Wikispecies has information related to Eurytides leucaspis.

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Protographium leucaspis.

* Butterflies of the Americas images

Taxon identifiers

Eurytides leucaspis|

* Wikidata: Q13627489
* GBIF: 4694230
* Insecta.pro: 15219
* IRMNG: 11365255
* LepIndex: 166522
* NCBI: 1896066
* Open Tree of Life: 3131854

Protographium leucaspis|

* Wikidata: Q13862084
* Wikispecies: Protographium leucaspis
* BioLib: 459913
* BOLD: 792253
* CoL: 4N5DB
* EoL: 130616
* GBIF: 1939146
* iNaturalist: 978769
* Open Tree of Life: 3131854

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