Eurytides epidaus (original) (raw)
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Species of butterfly
| Eurytides epidaus | |
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Scientific classification  |
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Papilionidae |
| Genus: | Eurytides |
| Species: | E. epidaus |
| Binomial name | |
| Eurytides epidaus(Doubleday, 1846)[1] | |
| Synonyms | |
| List Papilio epidaus Doubleday, 1846 Eurytides epidaus Neographium epidaus Papilio fenochionis Salvin & Godman, 1868 Protographium epidaus (Doubleday, 1846) |
Eurytides epidaus, the Mexican kite swallowtail or long-tailed kite swallowtail, is a butterfly of the family Papilionidae. It is found in Mexico and Central America.[2]
The larvae feed on Annona reticulata and Rollinia species
There are three recognised subspecies:
- Eurytides epidaus epidaus (southern Mexico (Tamaulipas, Puebla, Veracruz, Tabasco, Yucatán, Quintana Roo, N. Oaxaca, N. Chiapas), Belize, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica)
- Eurytides epidaus tepicus (Rothschild & Jordan, 1906) western Mexico: Sinaloa, Nayarit, Jalisco, Colima)
- Eurytides epidaus fenochionis (Salvin & Godman, 1868) (south-western Mexico: Michoacán, Guerrero, Morelos, Oaxaca, S. Veracruz, Chiapas)
- ^ Protographium at funet
- ^ taxonomy. "Taxonomy browser (Eurytides)". www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov. Retrieved 2022-12-08.
- ^ Species of Costa Rica Archived 2012-03-31 at the Wayback Machine
- Edwin Möhn, 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.