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''Eurytides dioxippus'' is a species of
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 ...
found in the
Neotropical realm The Neotropical realm is one of the eight biogeographic realms constituting Earth's land surface. Physically, it includes the tropical terrestrial ecoregions of the Americas and the entire South American temperate zone. Definition In bioge ...
.


Subspecies

*''E. d. dioxippus'' - Panama to Colombia *''E. d. marae'' (Racheli, Bollino & Sala, 1990) - south-western Venezuela: Tachira, Barinas *''E. d. diores'' (Rothschild & Jordan, 1906) - Colombia, Ecuador: Napo, Peru, Bolivia: Mapiri *''E. d. lacandones'' (Bates, 1864), the thick-border kite swallowtail - south-western Mexico: Veracruz, eastern Chiapas, Guatemala to Costa Rica, western Panama. Often sold to collectors.


Description

Wings on the upper surface with common green-yellow triangular area; forewing with vestiges of costal bands; hindwing with 2 red spots at the anal angle. Very common in Bogota-collections; Valleys of the Gauca, Magdalena and Meta Rivers, at moderate elevations.


Status

Restricted range but common and not threatened


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).


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''dioxippus'' images

''lacandones'' images Eurytides Butterflies described in 1856 {{Papilionidae-stub