''Mimoides thymbraeus'', the white-crescent swallowtail, 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 ...
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 ...
. It is found from
Mexico
Mexico (Spanish: México), officially the United Mexican States, is a country in the southern portion of North America. It is bordered to the north by the United States; to the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; to the southeast by Guatema ...
to
El Salvador
El Salvador (; , meaning " The Saviour"), officially the Republic of El Salvador ( es, República de El Salvador), is a country in Central America. It is bordered on the northeast by Honduras, on the northwest by Guatemala, and on the south b ...
and
Honduras
Honduras, officially the Republic of Honduras, is a country in Central America. The republic of Honduras is bordered to the west by Guatemala, to the southwest by El Salvador, to the southeast by Nicaragua, to the south by the Pacific Oce ...
,
where it is widespread and common.
Subspecies
* ''Mimoides thymbraeus thymbraeus''
(Boisduval, 1836) (southeastern Mexico to El Salvador and Honduras)
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* ''Mimoides thymbraeus aconophos'' (Gray ]853
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(western Mexico)[
]
Description from Seitz
''P. thymbraeus'' has small spots on head and breast grey-yellow, often slightly reddish. Upperside of the wings slightly but yet distinctly metallic blue or green; forewing without markings, but with white fringes; hindwing with a slender tail and 1 or 2 rows of spots between cell and margin. Under surface with red costal basal spot on the forewing and 4 basal spots on the hindwing. Larva on ''Chirimoya
The cherimoya (''Annona cherimola''), also spelled chirimoya and called chirimuya by the Inca people, is a species of edible fruit-bearing plant in the genus '' Annona'', from the family Annonaceae, which includes the closely related sweetsop a ...
''; the thorax dotted with blue and yellow; striped with white and black from the 4. segment backwards, the white stripes with small blue and yellow spots, the sides blue, from the 5. segment dotted with yellow. Pupa green, as in the allied species, appearing constricted at the base of the abdomen. The butterfly flies
in the open country the whole year through, and is rather common at a height of 500 to 1560 m. —''thymbraeus'' Boisd. (14 b) is distributed from East Mexico to Honduras. The hindwing in male and female has 2 rows of red spots. — In ''aconophos'' Gray the hindwing has only one row of red spots, the discal row is absent. Central and West Mexico.[ Seitz, A. ed. Band 1: Abt. 1, ''Die Großschmetterlinge des palaearktischen Faunengebietes, Die palaearktischen Tagfalter'',
1909, 379 Seiten, mit 89 kolorierten Tafeln (3470 Figuren) ]
References
Further reading
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Thymbraeus
Papilionidae of South America
Butterflies described in 1836
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