Mimoides xynias
Mimoides xynias | |
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Plate accompanying Hewitson's original description in Illustrations of New Species of Exotic Butterflies, 1875 | |
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Kingdom: | Animalia
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Phylum: | Arthropoda
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Class: | Insecta
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Family: | Papilionidae
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Species: | M. xynias
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Binomial name | |
Mimoides xynias (Hewitson, 1875)
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Mimoides xynias is a species of butterfly in the family Papilionidae. It is found in the Neotropical realm.
Subspecies[]
Description from Seitz[]
P. xynias Hew. (13 c). Forewing with large pale green area at the hindmargin; hindwing acutely dentate, with short, narrow tail and a few red discal spots posteriorly. Beneath the forewing has a white, very faintly- green hindmarginal spot, which is smaller than the spot on the upper surface. No scent-scales. Female not known. — Eastern slopes of the Andes of Bolivia and Peru. P. trapeza R. & J. (13 c). Forewing narrower in the middle than in harmodius, the hindmargin shorter, a white spot at the hindmargin, not extending to the 2. median; hindwing triangular, sharply dentate, with 2 to 4- red spots from the hindmargin forwards, the posterior spot the largest. Beneath the white hindmarginal spot of the forewing is longer than in all the forms of harmodius. Female unknown. — East Ecuador and North-East Peru [1]
Seitz Plate 13
Novitates Zoologicae 1906 Plate 5
References[]
- ^ Seitz, A. ed. Band 1: Abt. 1, Die Großschmetterlinge des palaearktischen Faunengebietes, Die palaearktischen Tagfalter, 1909, 379 Seiten, mit 89 kolorierten Tafeln (3470 Figuren) This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
- 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.
External links[]
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- Savela, Markku. "Mimoides xynias". funet.fi. Retrieved 6 November 2010.
- Mimoides
- Butterflies described in 1875
- Papilionidae of South America
- Taxa named by William Chapman Hewitson