Eurytides agesilaus | |
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Mounted specimen from Colombia | |
E. a. agesilaus underside Cristalino River, Southern Amazon, Brazil | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Papilionidae |
Genus: | Eurytides |
Species: | E. agesilaus |
Binomial name | |
Eurytides agesilaus (Guérin-Méneville & Percheron, 1835) | |
Synonyms | |
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Eurytides agesilaus, the short-lined kite swallowtail, is a medium-sized species of butterfly in the family Papilionidae.
Eurytides agesilaus has a wingspan of about 70–80 millimetres (2.8–3.1 in). The forewings are triangular shaped and the hindwings are adorned with a long sword-like tails. The basic colour of the wings is greenish white. The forewings have seven black bands and a black marking with two red spots bordered with white on the margins. On the undersides of the hindwings there are two black and red streaks. The females are like the males but have rather larger pale submarginal spots on the hindwings. They are easy to recognise by the red line of the hindwing being edged with black distally.
Larvae feed on Rollinia emarginata .
This species is mainly present in Mexico, Costa Rica, Panama, Nicaragua, Ecuador, Colombia, Venezuela, Brazil, Peru, Bolivia and Paraguay.
Eurytides agesilaus is common and not threatened.
It is named in the classical tradition. Agesilaus was an ancient Greek king.
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