Papilio homothoas

Papilio homothoas
Plate accompanying original description (figure 13)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Papilionidae
Genus:	Papilio
Species:	P. homothoas
Binomial name
Papilio homothoas Rothschild & Karl Jordan, 1906

Papilio homothoas, the false giant swallowtail, is a species of swallowtail butterfly from the genus Papilio that is found in Colombia, Venezuela, Trinidad, Panama, and Costa Rica. ^{[1] [2]}

Description

P. homothoas R. & J. (7c). Tail shorter and more rounded at the tip than in the thoas -forms from South America; no cell-spot on the forewing. Genitalia quite different from the organs of P. thoas; instead left of the long anal clasper of thoas there is a short fork, the teeth of which are curved right and harpe broad, rounded. Orinoco, Colombia, Marguerita Island off the coast of Venezuela. ^[3]

Biology

The larvae of P. homothoas feed on plants of the genera Ruta and Citrus (Rutaceae).

Taxonomy

Papilio machaonides is a member of the Papilio thoas species group.

References

1. False Giant Swallowtail, Butterflies of America
2. Papilio at Funet
3. Jordan, K. in Seitz, A.(1908).The Macrolepidoptera of the World 9: The Rhopalocera of the Indo-Australian faunal region . Papilionidae 11-118. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain .