Protesilaus earis

Protesilaus earis
P. earis and related species in Adalbert Seitz's Fauna Americana
Scientific classification
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 earis Rothschild & Jordan, 1906
  • Graphium earis
  • Eurytides earis

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

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]

Further reading

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.


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