Eurytides epidaus

Eurytides epidaus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Papilionidae
Genus:	Eurytides
Species:	E. epidaus
Binomial name
Eurytides epidaus (Doubleday, 1846) [1]
Synonyms
List Papilio epidausDoubleday, 1846 Eurytides epidaus Neographium epidaus Papilio fenochionisSalvin & Godman, 1868 Protographium epidaus(Doubleday, 1846)

Eurytides epidaus, the Mexican kite swallowtail or long-tailed kite swallowtail, is a butterfly of the family Papilionidae. It is found in Mexico and Central America. ^[2]

The wingspan is 40–45 mm. ^[3]

The larvae feed on Annona reticulata and Rollinia species

Subspecies

There are three recognised subspecies:

• Eurytides epidaus epidaus (southern Mexico (Tamaulipas, Puebla, Veracruz, Tabasco, Yucatán, Quintana Roo, N. Oaxaca, N. Chiapas), Belize, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica)
• Eurytides epidaus tepicus(Rothschild & Jordan, 1906) western Mexico: Sinaloa, Nayarit, Jalisco, Colima)
• Eurytides epidaus fenochionis(Salvin & Godman, 1868) (south-western Mexico: Michoacán, Guerrero, Morelos, Oaxaca, S. Veracruz, Chiapas)

References

1. Protographium at funet
2. taxonomy. "Taxonomy browser (Eurytides)". www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov. Retrieved 2022-12-08.
3. Species of Costa Rica Archived 2012-03-31 at the Wayback Machine

Further reading

• Edwin Möhn, 2002 Schmetterlinge der Erde, Butterflies of the world Part XIIII (14), Papilionidae VIII: Baronia, Euryades, Protographium, Neographium, Eurytides. Edited by Erich Bauer and Thomas Frankenbach Keltern: Goecke & Evers; Canterbury : Hillside Books. ISBN   978-3-931374-87-7 All species and subspecies are included, also most of the forms. Several females are shown the first time in colour.