Protographium dioxippus

Protographium dioxippus
Protographium dioxippus and related species in Seitz Fauna Americana
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Papilionidae
Genus: Protographium
Species: P. dioxippus
Binomial name
Protographium dioxippus
(Hewitson, [1856]) [1]
Synonyms
  • Papilio dioxippus Hewitson, 1856
  • Papilio (Cosmodesmus) ab. drueti Dufrane, 1946
  • Eurytides dioxippus marae Racheli, Bollino & Sala, 1990
  • Papilio lacandones diores Rothschild & Jordan, 1906
  • Papilio pausanias Fruhstorfer, 1938 (preocc. Hewitson, 1852)
  • Papilio lacandones Bates, 1864

Protographium dioxippus is a species of butterfly found in the Neotropical ecozone

Subspecies

Description

Wings on the upper surface with common green-yellow triangular area; forewing with vestiges of costal bands; hindwing with 2 red spots at the anal angle. Very common in Bogota-collections; Valleys of the Gauca, Magdalena and Meta Rivers, at moderate elevations.[2]

Status

Restricted range but common and not threatened [3]

Further reading

D'Abrera, B. (1981). Butterflies of the Neotropical Region. Part I. Papilionidae and Pieridae. Lansdowne Editions, Melbourne, xvi + 172 pp.

References

  1. Protographium at Funet
  2. Karl Jordan, 1916 Papilio In A. Seitz (editor), Macrolepidoptera of the world,vol. 5: 617–738. Stuttgart: Alfred Kernen also available as pdf
  3. Collins, N.M. & Morris, M.G. (1985) Threatened Swallowtail Butterflies of the World. IUCN. ISBN 2-88032-603-6 pdf

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