''Euryades'' is a genus of

butterflies 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 ...

in the family

Papilionidae Swallowtail butterflies are large, colorful butterflies in the family Papilionidae, and include over 550 species. Though the majority are tropical, members of the family inhabit every continent except Antarctica. The family includes the larges ...

. They are native to

South America South America is a continent entirely in the Western Hemisphere and mostly in the Southern Hemisphere, with a relatively small portion in the Northern Hemisphere at the northern tip of the continent. It can also be described as the southe ...

Species

* ''

Euryades corethrus ''Euryades corethrus'' is a species of butterfly from the family Papilionidae that is found in Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay, and Argentina. ''E. corethrus'' is a tailless swallowtail. The male is much paler than '' duponcheli'' and semitransparent ...

'' (Boisduval, 1836) * '' Euryades duponchelii'' (Lucas, 1839)

References

* *Edwin Möhn, 2002 ''Schmetterlinge der Erde, Butterflies of the World'' Part XIIII (14), Papilionidae VIII: Baronia, Euryades, Protographium, Neographium, Eurytides. Edited by Erich Bauer and Thomas Frankenbach Keltern: Goecke & Evers; Canterbury: Hillside Books. All species and subspecies are included, also most of the forms. Several females are shown the first time in colour.

External links

* Papilionidae of South America Butterfly genera Taxa named by Baron Cajetan von Felder Taxa named by Rudolf Felder {{Papilionidae-stub