Biology:Eurytides

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Short description: Genus of butterflies

Eurytides
Zebra Swallowtail Megan McCarty10.jpg
Eurytides marcellus
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
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

  • 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.

Wikidata ☰ Q1314621 entry