Eurytides thyastes

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Eurytides thyastes
Illustrations of Exotic Entomology Papilio Thyastes.jpg
Illustration by Dru Drury
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Papilionidae
Genus: Eurytides
Species:
E. thyastes
Binomial name
Eurytides thyastes
(Drury, 1782) [1]
Synonyms
List
  • Papilio thyastesDrury, 1782
  • Iphiclides diaphorusHübner, [1821]
  • Papilio marchandiiBoisduval, 1836
  • Papilio thyastinusOberthür, 1879
  • Papilio thyastes zorosRothschild & Jordan, 1906
  • Papilio marchandi var. panamensisOberthür, 1879
  • Protographium_thyastes(Drury, 1782)
  • Eurytides occidentalisMaza, 1982

Eurytides thyastes is a species of butterfly found in the Neotropical realm.

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Subspecies

Description

Forewing with complete or interrupted yellow discal band and hindwing with large yellow discal area: underside of the hindwing with red discal line. Ecuador to Bolivia; Brazil.

thyastinus Oberthur. The submarginal spots between the 2. and 3. radial of the forewing separated by a corresponding discal spot, discal band usually interrupted at the 3. radial, the 1. submarginal spot is absent or small. Eastern slopes of the Andes from North Ecuador to Central Peru, Upper Amazon.

zoros R. & J. [synonym of thyastinus] Like the preceding; the 1. submarginal spot of the forewing sharply- defined; the discal spot between 2. radial and 1. median usually truncate distally, the upper angle not rounded. South-East Peru and Bolivia.

thyastes Drury (= diaphorus Hbn.) Paler yellow than the Andes forms; discal band of the forewing not interrupted, or only very slightly, the submarginal spot between the 2. and 3. radials quite close to the discal spot or partly merged with it; the black discal area of the hindwing not entering the cell. Southern Brazil, only known from São Paulo to Rio Grande do Sul. [2]

Status

Not uncommon and not threatened. [3]

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. Mark; Morris, Michael G. (1985). Threatened Swallowtail Butterflies of the World: The IUCN Red Data Book. Gland & Cambridge: IUCN. ISBN   978-2-88032-603-6 via Biodiversity Heritage Library.

Further reading