Protographium calliste

Protographium calliste
Protographium calliste Figure 1
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Papilionidae
Genus: Protographium
Species: P. calliste
Binomial name
Protographium calliste
(Bates, 1864)[1]
Synonyms
  • 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 is a butterfly of the family Papilionidae. It is found in the Neotropical ecozone.

Description

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

References

  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

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