Protographium dioxippus

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Protographium dioxippus
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Protographium dioxippus and related species in Seitz Fauna Americana
Scientific classification edit
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Papilionidae
Genus: Protographium
Species:
P. dioxippus
Binomial name
Protographium dioxippus
(Hewitson, [1856]) [1]
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[]

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]

Further reading[]

D'Abrera, B. (1981). Butterflies of the Neotropical Region. Part I. Papilionidae and Pieridae. Lansdowne Editions, Melbourne, xvi + 172 pp.

  • D'Almeida, R.F. (1965). Catalogo dos Papilionidae Americanos. Sociedade Brasileira de Entomologia. São Paulo, Brasil.
  • Rothschild, W. and Jordan, K. (1906). A revision of the American Papilios. Novitates Zoologicae 13: 411-752. online (and as pdf) (Facsimile edition ed. P.H. Arnaud, 1967).

References[]

  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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