Protographium dioxippus

Protographium dioxippus
	Protographium dioxippus and related species in Seitz Fauna Americana
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Papilionidae
Genus:	Protographium
Species:	P. dioxippus
Binomial name
	Protographium dioxippus; (Hewitson, [1856])
Synonyms
	Papilio dioxippus Hewitson, 1856; Papilio (Cosmodesmus) ab. drueti Dufrane, 1946; Eurytides dioxippus marae Racheli, Bollino & Sala, 1990; Papilio lacandones diores Rothschild & Jordan, 1906; Papilio pausanias Fruhstorfer, 1938 (preocc. Hewitson, 1852); Papilio lacandones Bates, 1864;

Protographium dioxippus is a species of butterfly found in the Neotropical realm

Subspecies[]

P. d. dioxippus (Panama to Colombia)
P. d. marae (Racheli, Bollino & Sala, 1990) (south-western Venezuela: Tachira, Barinas)
P. d. diores (Rothschild & Jordan, 1906) (Colombia, Ecuador: Napo, Peru, Bolivia: Mapiri)
P. d. lacandones (Bates, 1864) (south-western Mexico: Veracruz, eastern Chiapas, Guatemala to Costa Rica, western Panama)

Description[]

Wings on the upper surface with common green-yellow triangular area; forewing with vestiges of costal bands; hindwing with 2 red spots at the anal angle. Very common in Bogota-collections; Valleys of the Gauca, Magdalena and Meta Rivers, at moderate elevations.^[2]

Status[]

Restricted range but common and not threatened ^[3]

References[]

^ Protographium at Funet
^ Karl Jordan, 1916 Papilio In A. Seitz (editor), Macrolepidoptera of the world,vol. 5: 617–738. Stuttgart: Alfred Kernen [1] also available as pdf
^ 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[]

Butterflies of the Americas dioxippus images
Butterflies of the Americas lacandones images

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[1] Protographium at Funet

[2] Karl Jordan, 1916 Papilio In A. Seitz (editor), Macrolepidoptera of the world,vol. 5: 617–738. Stuttgart: Alfred Kernen [1] 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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