Eurytides calliste

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Eurytides calliste is a species of butterfly in the family Papilionidae. It is found in the Neotropical realm.

Eurytides calliste
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Papilionidae
Genus: Eurytides
Species:
E. calliste
Binomial name
Eurytides calliste
(Bates, 1864)[1]
Synonyms
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  • Papilio calliste Bates, 1864
  • Papilio l'orzae Boisduval, 1869
  • Papilio lorzae Boisduval, 1869
  • Eurytides calliste f. albida Beutelspächer, 1976
  • Papilio calliste olbius Rothschild & Jordan, 1906
  • Protographium calliste (Bates, 1864)

Description

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Bands and spots of the wings pale yellow or greenish yellow, similarly arranged as in Protographium dioxippus; submarginal row of the forewing curved; hindwing with 2, rarely 3 red spots, and with 2 very large greenish yellow marginal spots from the 2. radial to the 1. median; underside of the hindwing with pale marginal band.[2]

Subspecies

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  • E. c. calliste SE.Mexico (Puebla, Veracruz, Tabasco, Campeche, Yucatán, Quintana Roo, Oaxaca, Chiapas), Belize, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras.The two outer cell-bands of the forewing clearly developed and the last but two more or less indicated, the discal area eraarginate at the cell before the 2. median.
  • E. c. olbius (Rothschild & Jordan, 1906) Costa Rica - Panama (Chiriqui) Larger than the preceding (nominate) form; also the outer cell-bands of the forewing suffused with black in the middle; discal band broader, the black marginal area on both wings consequently narrower than in calliste; submarginal line of the forewing only vestigial from the 1. median backwards.

References

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  1. ^ Protographium at funet
  2. ^ Jordan, K. , in Seitz, A. ( 1907) . The Macrolepidoptera of the World. 5: The Macrolepidoptera of the American faunistic region. Papilionidae 1-45

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.
  • 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 – via Biodiversity Heritage Library.