Papilio erostratus

Species of butterfly

Erostratus swallowtail

Plate accompanying Westwood's 1847 description
Scientific classification
Domain:  | Eukaryota
Kingdom:  | Animalia
Phylum:  | Arthropoda
Class:  | Insecta
Order:  | Lepidoptera
Family:  | Papilionidae
Genus:  | Papilio
Species:  |

P. erostratus

Binomial name
Papilio erostratus

Westwood, 1847

Synonyms

Papilio rhetus Gray, [1853]

Papilio erostratus, the Erostratus swallowtail, is a species of Neotropical swallowtail butterfly from the genus Papilio that is found in Guatemala, Costa Rica, Belize and Mexico.[1][2]

## Description

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Plate from Adalbert Seitz's The Macrolepidoptera of the World showing both Papilio erostratus and Papilio rogeri pharnaces

It is very similar to Papilio pharnaces but in the male the spots on the upper surface of the hindwing are yellowish white. In the female the spots are red also above, larger than in the female of P. pharnaces the marginal spots of both wings also somewhat larger than in the foregoing species. Tail long and narrow. Sympatric with P. pharnaces in western Mexico.[3]

## Habitat

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It is most common in hilly country at a height of about 1500 m (approximately 5,000 ft).

## Subspecies

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* Papilio erostratus erostratus – (Guatemala, Costa Rica, Belize)
* Papilio erostratus erostratinus Vázquez, 1947 – (Mexico)
* Papilio erostratus vazquezae Beutelspacher, 1986 – (Mexico)

## References

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1. ^ Papilio erostratus, at Funet.fi
2. ^ "Papilio erostratus Westwood 1847 - Encyclopedia of Life".
3. ^ Jordan, K.; in Seitz, A. (1907). The Macrolepidoptera of the World. 5: The Macrolepidoptera of the American faunistic region. Papilionidae 1-45.

* Lewis, H.L. (1974). Butterflies of the World ISBN 0-245-52097-X Page 24, figure 21.

Taxon identifiers

Papilio erostratus|

* Wikidata: Q7132885
* Wikispecies: Papilio erostratus
* BAMONA: Papilio-erostratus
* BioLib: 1320038
* BOLD: 29457
* CoL: 4CKC6
* EoL: 130826
* GBIF: 1937693
* iNaturalist: 204773
* IRMNG: 10274579
* LepIndex: 168437
* NCBI: 262654
* Observation.org: 207182
* Open Tree of Life: 586656

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