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]

Eurytides epidaus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
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
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  • Papilio epidaus Doubleday, 1846
  • Eurytides epidaus
  • Neographium epidaus
  • Papilio fenochionis Salvin & Godman, 1868
  • Protographium epidaus (Doubleday, 1846)

The wingspan is 40–45 mm.[3]

The larvae feed on Annona reticulata and Rollinia species

Subspecies

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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)

References

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  1. ^ Protographium at funet
  2. ^ taxonomy. "Taxonomy browser (Eurytides)". www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov. Retrieved 2022-12-08.
  3. ^ Species of Costa Rica Archived 2012-03-31 at the Wayback Machine

Further reading

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  • 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.