''Eurytides thyastes ''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
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Definition
In bioge ...
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Subspecies
*''E. t. thyastes'' Mato Grosso - Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, Paraná, Santa Catarina,
Rio Grande do Sul
Rio Grande do Sul (, , ; "Great River of the South") is a Federative units of Brazil, state in the South Region, Brazil, southern region of Brazil. It is the Federative_units_of_Brazil#List, fifth-most-populous state and the List of Brazilian st ...
(southeastern Brazil) northeast Paraguay
*''E. t. marchandii''
Boisduval, 1836 Puebla, Veracruz, Tabasco, Oaxaca, Chiapas (eastern Mexico), Belize, Guatemala, Honduras
*''E. t. thyastinus''
(Oberthür, 1879) east of the Andes (southeast Ecuador, southeast Colombia), Peru, north Bolivia,
Amazonas
*''E. t. panamensis''
(Oberthür, 1879) Costa Rica, west Colombia, northwest Ecuador, Panama.
*''E. 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.
ynonym 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.
Status
Not uncommon and not threatened.
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References
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).
External links
marchandii images
occidentalis images of
holotype
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Butterflies of the Americaspanamensis images
Eurytides
Fauna of Brazil
Papilionidae of South America
Butterflies described in 1782
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