Protographium dioxippus
| Protographium dioxippus | |
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| 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] | |
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Protographium dioxippus is a species of butterfly found in the Neotropical ecozone
Subspecies
- P. d. dioxippus (Panama to Colombia)
- P. d. marae (Racheli, Bollino & Sala, 1990) (south-western Venezuela: Tachira, Barinas)
- P. d. diores (Rothschild & Jordan, 1906) (Colombia, Ecuador: Napo, Peru, Bolivia: Mapiri)
- P. d. lacandones (Bates, 1864) (south-western Mexico: Veracruz, eastern Chiapas, Guatemala to Costa Rica, western Panama)
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.
- D'Almeida, R.F. (1965). Catalogo dos Papilionidae Americanos. Sociedade Brasileira de Entomologia. São Paulo, Brasil.
- Rothschild, W. and Jordan, K. (1906). A revision of the American Papilios. Novitates Zoologicae 13: 411-752. online (and as pdf) (Facsimile edition ed. P.H. Arnaud, 1967).
References
- ↑ Protographium at Funet
- ↑ Karl Jordan, 1916 Papilio In A. Seitz (editor), Macrolepidoptera of the world,vol. 5: 617–738. Stuttgart: Alfred Kernen also available as pdf
- ↑ Collins, N.M. & Morris, M.G. (1985) Threatened Swallowtail Butterflies of the World. IUCN. ISBN 2-88032-603-6 pdf
External links
- Butterflies of the Americas dioxippus images
- Butterflies of the Americas lacandones images
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