Papilio anchisiades

Ruby-spotted swallowtail
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Papilionidae
Genus:	Papilio
Species:	P. anchisiades
Binomial name
Papilio anchisiades Esper, 1788 [1]
Subspecies
6, see text
Synonyms
Papilio anchisesStoll, 1780, not Linnaeus, 1758 Papilio hipponousHübner, [1819] Papilio archelausGodart, 1819 Papilio theramenesC. & R. Felder, 1861 Heraclides matusikiJohnson & Rozycki, 1986 Papilio isidorusBates, 1861 (preocc. Doubleday, 1846) Papilio pompeiusKirby, 1871 (preocc. Fabricius, 1781) Heraclides isidorus Priamides anchisiades Heraclides anchisiades Papilio idaeusFabricius, 1793 Papilio pandionBates, 1861 Papilio pandionC. & R. Felder, 1865 Papilio pandoniusStaudinger, 1894 Papilio evanderGodart, 1819 (preocc. Stoll, 1780)

Papilio anchisiades, the ruby-black phoenix Anhisiadi or ruby-spotted swallowtail ^{[1] [2]} or red-spotted swallowtail, ^[3] is a butterfly of the family Papilionidae. It is found from southern Texas south to Argentina. Rare strays can be found up to Kansas, southeastern Arizona, and western Texas.

The wingspan is 70–100 mm.

The larvae feed on various species of the family Rutaceae, including Citrus , Casimiroa , and Zanthoxylum species. The adults feed on flower nectar.

Subspecies

Listed alphabetically. ^[3]

• Papilio anchisiades anchisiades – (Venezuela, Colombia to the Guayanas, Peru)
• Papilio anchisiades capys(Hübner, [1809]) – (Bolivia to Parana, Argentina, Paraguay)
• Papilio anchisiades idaeus(Fabricius, 1793) – ruby-spotted swallowtail (Texas, Mexico to Panama) ^[2]
• Papilio anchisiades lamasi(Brown, 1994) – (Ecuador)
• Papilio anchisiades philastriusFruhstorfer, 1915 – (Trinidad)

Gallery

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  Mounted specimen from Peru

References

1. Ruby-spotted Swallowtail ^[usurped] , Learn about Butterflies
2. Heraclides anchisiades idaeus (Fabricius, 1793), Butterflies of America
3. Papilio anchisiades, funet.fi

Other reading

• Bauer, Erich and Thomas Frankenbach (1998). Schmetterlinge der Erde, Butterflies of the World Part I (1), Papilionidae Papilionidae I: Papilio, Subgenus Achillides, Bhutanitis, Teinopalpus. Edited by Erich Bauer and Thomas Frankenbach. Keltern: Goecke & Evers; Canterbury: Hillside Books ISBN   9783931374624
• Lewis, H. L. (1974). Butterflies of the World ISBN   0-245-52097-X Page 24, figure 9.

External links

• 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.