Protographium thyastes
| Protographium thyastes | |
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| Illustration by Dru Drury | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Papilionidae |
| Genus: | Protographium |
| Species: | P. thyastes |
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| Protographium thyastes (Drury, 1782) [1] | |
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Protographium thyastes is a species of butterfly found in the Neotropical ecozone.
Subspecies
- P. t. thyastes Mato Grosso - Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, Paraná, Santa Catarina, Rio Grande do Sul (southeast Brazil) northeast Paraguay
- P. t. marchandii Boisduval, 1836 Puebla, Veracruz, Tabasco, Oaxaca, Chiapas (east Mexico), Belize, Guatemala, Honduras
- P. t. thyastinus (Oberthür, 1879) east of the Andes (southeast Ecuador, southeast Colombia), Peru, north Bolivia, Amazonas
- P. t. panamensis (Oberthür, 1879) Costa Rica, west Colombia, northwest Ecuador, Panama.
- P. t. occidentalis Maza, 1982 southwest Mexico (Guerrero, El Faisanal, Nueva Delhi)
Description
Forewing with complete or interrupted yellow discal band and hindwing with large yellow discal area: underside of the hindwing with red discal line. Ecuador to Bolivia; Brazil.
thyastinus Oberthur. The submarginal spots between the 2. and 3. radial of the forewing separated by a corresponding discal spot, discal band usually interrupted at the 3. radial, the 1. submarginal spot is absent or small. Eastern slopes of the Andes from North Ecuador to Central Peru, Upper Amazon.
zoros R. & J. [synonym of thyastinus] Like the preceding; the 1. submarginal spot of the forewing sharply- defined; the discal spot between 2. radial and 1. median usually truncate distally, the upper angle not rounded. South-East Peru and Bolivia.
thyastes Drury (= diaphorus Hbn.) Paler yellow than the Andes forms; discal band of the forewing not interrupted, or only very slightly, the submarginal spot between the 2. and 3. radials quite close to the discal spot or partly merged with it; the black discal area of the hindwing not entering the cell. Southern Brazil, only known from São Paulo to Rio Grande do Sul. [2]
Status
Not uncommon 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
- ↑ Protographium at Funet
- ↑ Karl Jordan, 1916 Papilio In A. Seitz (editor), Macrolepidoptera of the world, vol. 5: 617–738. Stuttgart: Alfred Kernen 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.
External links
- Butterflies of the Americas marchandii images
- Butterflies of the Americas occidentalis images of holotype
- Butterflies of the Americas panamensis images