Eueides lybia, the lybia longwing, is a butterfly of the family Nymphalidae. It was described by Johan Christian Fabricius in 1775. It is found from Central America to northern South America,[1] from Nicaragua to Bolivia.[2]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Nymphalidae |
| Genus: | Eueides |
| Species: | E. lybia
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| Binomial name | |
| Eueides lybia (Fabricius, 1775)
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Subspecies edit
- Eueides lybia lybia (Suriname)
- Eueides lybia lybioides Staudinger, 1876 (Costa Rica, Panama)
- Eueides lybia olympia (Fabricius, 1793) (Nicaragua to Colombia)
- Eueides lybia orinocensis Brown & Fernández, 1985 (Venezuela)
- Eueides lybia otelloi Brown & Fernández, 1985 (Venezuela)
- Eueides lybia salcedoi Brown & Fernández, 1985 (Venezuela)
References edit
- ^ "Eueides Hübner, 1816" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
- ^ Eueides lybia, Learn about Butterflies
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