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Mimoides euryleon

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False cattleheart swallowtail
Mounted specimen on display at Museo di Scienze Naturali Enrico Caffi, Bergamo
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Insecta
Order:
Lepidoptera
Family:
Papilionidae
Tribe:
Leptocircini
Genus:
Mimoides
Species:
M. euryleon
Binomial name
Mimoides euryleon
(Hewitson, [1856])
Synonyms
  • Papilio euryleon Hewitson, 1856 (Colombia)
  • Papilio euryleon abadiae Apolinar, 1916
  • Papilio clusoculis Butler, 1872 (Costa Rica and Panama)
  • Papilio euryleon pithonius Rothschild & Jordan, 1906 (false cattleheart swallowtail) (Colombia)
  • Protesilaus euryleon pleiades Johnson & Matusik, 1987
  • Papilio euryleon haenschi Rothschild & Jordan, 1906
  • Papilio euryleon anatmus Rothschild & Jordan, 1906 (Ecuador)
  • Papilio euryleon anatmus f. punctata Niepelt, 1909
  • Papilio euryleon var. insidiosa Boullet & Le Cerf, 1912
  • Mimoides euryleon rodriquezi Le Crom, Constantino & Salazar, 2002 (Colombia)

Mimoides euryleon, the false cattleheart swallowtail, is a species of butterfly in the family Papilionidae.

Description

Mimoides euryleon has a wingspan reaching 68–78 millimetres (2.7–3.1 in). The basic color of the wings is iridescent black or dark brown, with white patches on the dorsal sides of the forewings and red patches on the hindwings. Also the undersides of the wings are iridescent black or dark brown, with small red spots in the basal area of the hindwings. Caterpillars feed on Annona glabra and Guatteria oliviformis.

Distribution and habitat

This species is widespread in the Neotropical ecozone, in Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, and Ecuador. It lives in the Andes at an elevation between 600 and 1600 m.

Subspecies

  • M. e. euryleon - Colombia
  • M. e. clusoculis (Butler, 1872) - Costa Rica, Panama
  • M. e. pithonius (Rothschild & Jordan, 1906) - Colombia
  • M. e. haenschi (Rothschild & Jordan, 1906) - Ecuador
  • M. e. anatmus (Rothschild & Jordan, 1906) - Ecuador
  • M. e. rodriquezi Le Crom, Constantino & Salazar, 2002 - Colombia
  • The Hewitson plate accompanying the original description in Illustrations of New Species of Exotic Butterflies 1856
    The Hewitson plate accompanying the original description in Illustrations of New Species of Exotic Butterflies 1856

References

  • 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.
  • Butler, A.G. (1872). Descriptions of new butterflies from Costa Rica., Butler, A. G. (1872) Descriptions of new butterflies from Costa Rica. Cistula entomologica 1 (4): 72-90
  • GloBIS (GART): Global Butterfly Information System. Häuser C., Holstein J. & Steiner A. (eds), 2008-11-23
  • Bisby F.A., Roskov Y.R., Orrell T.M., Nicolson D., Paglinawan L.E., Bailly N., Kirk P.M., Bourgoin T., Baillargeon G., Ouvrard D. (red.) (2011). Catalogue of Life
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