Protesilaus earis

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Protesilaus earis
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P. earis and related species in Adalbert Seitz's Fauna Americana
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Papilionidae
Genus: Protesilaus
Species:
P. earis
Binomial name
Protesilaus earis
(Rothschild & Jordan, 1906) [1]
Synonyms
  • Papilio earisRothschild & Jordan, 1906
  • Graphium earis
  • Eurytides earis

Protesilaus earis, the Rothschild's swordtail, is a species of butterfly found in the Neotropical realm (southeast Brazil, Paraguay, Argentina).

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Description

Antenna dark yellowish brown. Frons yellowish at the sides. Wings slightly yellowish, beneath slightly reddish; bands narrow, 4. band of the forewing reduced to a small spot, 6. band close to the lower angle of the cell; the yellowish marginal and submarginal spots of the hindwing narrow, above and beneath smaller than in the name-typical protesilaus; hindwing beneath with long arrow-shaped patch before the abdominal margin, this patch reduced in protesilaus. Dorsal margin of the harpe slightly widened, ventral process non-dentate, not extending to the lower edge of the clasper, central process short, broad, spatulate, strongly dentate. Eastern Ecuador, widely distributed. [2]

Status

Uncommon and little known. No known threats. [3]

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References

  1. ↑ Protesilaus 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.

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