Protographium leucaspis
| Protographium leucaspis | |
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| Protographium thyastes and related species in Adalbert Seitz's Fauna Americana | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Papilionidae |
| Genus: | Protographium |
| Species: | P. leucaspis |
| Binomial name | |
| Protographium leucaspis (Godart, 1819) [1] | |
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Protographium leucaspis is a species of butterfly found in the Neotropical ecozone
Subspecies
- P. l. leucaspis (northern Colombia, eastern Ecuador, northern Peru, Bolivia)
- P. l. lamidis Brown & Lamas, 1994 (western Venezuela (Tachira), Colombia)
Description
Frons entirely brownish black; abdomen yellowish beneath; the wings with commontriangular green-yellow area; the brown marginal area with blackish hues parallel to the margin. Colombia to Bolivia; a very common species in the Andes.
lamis R.& J. The posterior cell-spots of the forewing large, very distinct also beneath. Colombia.
leucaspis Godt. The cell-spots of the forewing smaller, usually only indicated beneath, the two outer posterior cell-spots more widely separated from one another. Eastern slopes of the Andes, from Ecuador to Bolivia. [2]
Status
Common and not threatened.[3]
Further reading
- 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).
References
- ↑ Protographium at Funet
- ↑ Karl Jordan, 1916 Papilio In A. Seitz (editor), Macrolepidoptera of the world,vol. 5: 617–738. Stuttgart: Alfred Kernen also available as pdf
- ↑ 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.
External links
- Butterflies of the Americas images
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