''Papilio chiansiades'' is a

swallowtail butterfly 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 large ...

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Papilioninae Papilioninae is a subfamily of the butterfly family Papilionidae. Papilioninae are found worldwide, but most species are distributed in the tropics. There are roughly 480 species, of which 27 occur in North America. Tribes This subfamily consis ...

subfamily. It is found in the

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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 ...

Description

On the upper surface of the forewing before the hindmargin a large yellowish white spot; on the hindwing posteriorly some red discal and submarginal spots, the spots of the two rows separated from one another; the tooth of the 3. radial prolonged into a short pointed tail.Jordan, K., in Seitz, A. ( 1907) . The Macrolepidoptera of the World. 5: The Macrolepidoptera of the American faunistic region. Papilionidae 1-45 The

wingspan The wingspan (or just span) of a bird or an airplane is the distance from one wingtip to the other wingtip. For example, the Boeing 777–200 has a wingspan of , and a wandering albatross (''Diomedea exulans'') caught in 1965 had a wingspan of ...

is 52−55 mm.

Subspecies

*''Papilio chiansiades chiansiades'' (Ecuador) *'' Papilio chiansiades maroni'' Moreau, 1923 (French Guiana, Venezuela) *''Papilio chiansiades dospassosi'' Rütimeyer, 1969 (Colombia) *''Papilio chiansiades mossi'' (Brown, 1994) (Brazil)

References

*Lewis, H. L., 1974 ''Butterflies of the World'' Page 24, figure 17.

External links

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chiansiades Papilionidae of South America Butterflies described in 1872 {{Papilionidae-stub