Papilio anchisiades

Ruby-spotted Swallowtail
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Division:	Rhopalocera
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Papilionidae
Tribe:	Papilionini
Genus:	Papilio
Species:	P. anchisiades
Binomial name
Papilio anchisiades Esper, 1788[1]
Subspecies
6 sspp., see text
Synonyms
Papilio anchises Stoll, 1780, not Linnaeus, 1758 Papilio hipponous Hübner, [1819] Papilio archelaus Godart, 1819 Papilio theramenes C. & R. Felder, 1861 Heraclides matusiki Johnson & Rozycki, 1986 Papilio isidorus Bates, 1861 (preocc. Doubleday, 1846) Papilio pompeius Kirby, 1871 (preocc. Fabricius, 1781) Heraclides isidorus Priamides anchisiades Heraclides anchisiades Papilio idaeus Fabricius, 1793 Papilio pandion Bates, 1861 Papilio pandion C. & R. Felder, 1865 Papilio pandonius Staudinger, 1894 Papilio evander Godart, 1819 (preocc. Stoll, 1780)

The Ruby-spotted Swallowtail^[1][2] or Red-spotted Swallowtail^[3] (Papilio anchisiades) is a butterfly of the family Papilionidae. It is found from southern Texas south to Argentina. A rare stray can be found up to Kansas, south-eastern Arizona, and western Texas.

The wingspan is 70–100 mm. There are several generations per year with adults on wing from May to October.

The larvae feed on various species of the Rutaceae family, including Citrus, Casimiroa, and Zanthoxylum species. The adults feed on flower nectar.

Subspecies

Listed alphabetically.^[3]

• Papilio anchisiades anchisiades – (Venezuela, Colombia to the Guayanas, Peru)
• Papilio anchisiades capys (Hübner, [1809]) – (Bolivia to Parana, Argentina, Paraguay)
• Papilio anchisiades idaeus (Fabricius, 1793) – Ruby-spotted Swallowtail (Texas, Mexico to Panama)^[2]
• Papilio anchisiades lamasi (Brown, 1994) – (Ecuador)
• Papilio anchisiades philastrius Fruhstorfer, 1915 – (Trinidad)

Gallery

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  Papilio anchisiades from Peru. Mounted specimen.

References

1. Ruby-spotted Swallowtail, Learn about Butterflies
2. Heraclides anchisiades idaeus (Fabricius, 1793), Butterflies of America
3. Papilio anchisiades, funet.fi

Other reading

• Bauer, Erich and Thomas Frankenbach (1998). Schmetterlinge der Erde, Butterflies of the world Part I (1), Papilionidae Papilionidae I: Papilio, Subgenus Achillides, Bhutanitis, Teinopalpus. Edited by Erich Bauer and Thomas Frankenbach. Keltern : Goecke & Evers ; Canterbury : Hillside Books ISBN 9783931374624
• Lewis, H. L. (1974). Butterflies of the World ISBN 0-245-52097-X Page 24, figure 9.

External links

• Collins, N.M., Morris, M.G. (1985). Threatened Swallowtail Butterflies of the World: the IUCN Red Data Book 1985 IUCN