Baronia brevicornis

Baronia brevicornis
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Papilionidae
Subfamily: Baroniinae
Bryk, 1913
Genus: Baronia
Salvin, 1893
Species: B. brevicornis
Binomial name
Baronia brevicornis
Salvin, 1893

Baronia brevicornis, commonly known as the short-horned baronia, is a species of butterfly in the family Papilionidae. It is monotypic within the genus Baronia. It is endemic to a very small area of Mexico, where the distribution is patchy and restricted.[2][3]

The genus is named after a Mr Baron who collected the first specimen in the Sierra Madre region of Mexico. The species was then described by Salvin.[4]

Morphological characteristics include an abdominal scent organ in females.[5][6]

Baronia is unique among swallowtail butterflies in having an Acacia species, Acacia cochliacanha (family Leguminosae) as its larval foodplant.[7][8]

Taxonomy

Baronia brevicornis is of particular importance due to its relict nature and uncertain relationship to other subfamilies such as the Parnassiinae. It is now considered to represent the monotypic subfamily Baroniinae. The butterfly is considered as the most primitive extant papilionid taxon and shares some features with the fossil taxon Praepapilio.

Subspecies

References

  1. M. Gimenez Dixon (1996). "Baronia brevicornis". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2.3. International Union for Conservation of Nature. Retrieved 31 July 2007.
  2. Luis-Martinez, A.; J Llorente-Bousquets, Isable Vargas-Fernandez & A. D. Warren (2003). "Biodiversity and biogeography of Mexican butterflies (Lepidoptera: Papilionoidea and Hesperioidea)" (PDF). Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 105 (1): 209–224.
  3. Llorente-Bousquets, J & A. Luis-Martinez (1993) Conservation-oriented analysis of Mexican butterflies: Papilionidae (Lepidoptera, Papilionoidea). In Ramammorthy, T.P., J. Fa, R. Bye y A. Lot (Eds.). 1993. The biological diversity of Mexico: origins and distributions. Oxford University Press. PDF
  4. http://www.sil.si.edu/digitalcollections/bca/bca_14_02_00/pdf/bca_14_02_00_740.pdf
  5. Robbins, Robert K. (1989). "Systematic implications of butterfly leg structures that clean the antennae". Psyche 96: 209–222. doi:10.1155/1989/43420.
  6. Häuser, C. L. (1992). "A new abdominal scent organ in females of Baronia brevicornis (Lepidoptera: Papilionidae)". Zoologischer Anzeiger 229 (1/2): 54–62.
  7. Collins, N. Mark; Collins, Michael G. (1985). Threatened Swallowtails of the World:the IUCN red data book. IUCN Protected Area Programme Series. Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, U.K.: IUCN. pp. 401 & 8 plates. ISBN 978-2-88032-603-6. Retrieved 22 October 2010.
  8. Savela, Marrku (16 Feb 2008). "Baronia". Lepidoptera and some other life forms. nic.funet.fi. Retrieved 9 November 2010.

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