''Eueides lybia'', the lybia longwing, is a

butterfly Butterflies are insects in the macrolepidopteran clade Rhopalocera from the Order (biology), order Lepidoptera, which also includes moths. Adult butterflies have large, often brightly coloured wings, and conspicuous, fluttering flight. The ...

of the family

Nymphalidae The Nymphalidae are the largest family of butterflies, with more than 6,000 species distributed throughout most of the world. Belonging to the superfamily Papilionoidea, they are usually medium-sized to large butterflies. Most species have a red ...

. It was described by

Johan Christian Fabricius Johan Christian Fabricius (7 January 1745 – 3 March 1808) was a Danish zoologist, specialising in "Insecta", which at that time included all arthropods: insects, arachnids, crustaceans and others. He was a student of Carl Linnaeus, and is cons ...

in 1775. It is found from

Central America Central America ( es, América Central or ) is a subregion of the Americas. Its boundaries are defined as bordering the United States to the north, Colombia to the south, the Caribbean Sea to the east, and the Pacific Ocean to the west. ...

to northern

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, from

Nicaragua Nicaragua (; ), officially the Republic of Nicaragua (), is the largest country in Central America, bordered by Honduras to the north, the Caribbean to the east, Costa Rica to the south, and the Pacific Ocean to the west. Managua is the cou ...

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. Adults feed on flower nectar of ''

Lantana ''Lantana'' () is a genus of about 150 species of perennial flowering plants in the verbena family, Verbenaceae. They are native to tropical regions of the Americas and Africa but exist as an introduced species in numerous areas, especially in ...

'' and ''

Psiguria ''Psiguria'' is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Cucurbitaceae. Its native range is Mexico to Tropical America. Species: *''Psiguria pedata'' *''Psiguria racemosa'' *''Psiguria ternata'' *''Psiguria triphylla'' *''Psiguri ...

'' species. They spend most of the time in the forest canopy. The larvae feed on solitarily ''

Passiflora vitifolia ''Passiflora vitifolia'', the perfumed passionflower, is a species of ''Passiflora'', native to southern Central America (Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Panama) and northwestern South America (Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru). Description It is a vi ...

''. They are black with white patches on the thorax and anal segment and a yellowish stripe along the sides. The head is black. Pupation takes place in a white pupa which is suspended by the cremaster from a leaf.''Eueides lybia''
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Subspecies

*''Eueides lybia lybia'' (Suriname) *''Eueides lybia lybioides'' Staudinger, 1876 (Costa Rica, Panama) *''Eueides lybia olympia'' (Fabricius, 1793) (Nicaragua to Colombia) *''Eueides lybia orinocensis'' Brown & Fernández, 1985 (Venezuela) *''Eueides lybia otelloi'' Brown & Fernández, 1985 (Venezuela) *''Eueides lybia salcedoi'' Brown & Fernández, 1985 (Venezuela)

References

Butterflies described in 1775 Heliconiini Nymphalidae of South America Taxa named by Johan Christian Fabricius {{Nymphalidae-stub