Protographium leucaspis

Protographium leucaspis
	Protographium leucaspis. Mounted specimen
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Papilionidae
Genus:	Protographium
Species:	P. leucaspis
Binomial name
	Protographium leucaspis; (Godart, 1819)
Synonyms
	Papilio leucaspis Godart, 1819; Papilio leucaspis lamis Rothschild & Jordan, 1906 (preocc. Cramer, 1779);

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

Subspecies[]

P. l. leucaspis (northern Colombia, eastern Ecuador, northern Peru, Bolivia)
P. l. lamidis Brown & Lamas, 1994 (western Venezuela (Tachira), Colombia)

Distribution[]

This species is present in Colombia, easter Ecuador, northern Peru, Bolivia and western Venezuela.^[1]

Description[]

Protographium leucaspis can reach a wingspan of almost 10 cm (3.9 in). These large butterflies have a frons entirely brownish black. The abdomen is yellowish beneath. The wings have a commontriangular green-yellow area, and a brown marginal area with blackish hues parallel to the margin.

lamis R.& J. The posterior cell-spots of the forewing is large, very distinct also beneath.

leucaspis Godt. The cell-spots of the forewing is smaller, usually only indicated beneath, the two outer posterior cell-spots arte more widely separated from one another.^[2]

Status[]

Common and not threatened.^[3]

References[]

^ ^a ^b 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[]

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[funet-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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