''Papilio hyppason'' is a

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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 ...

of the family

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. It is found in

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and

Ecuador Ecuador ( ; ; Quechua: ''Ikwayur''; Shuar: ''Ecuador'' or ''Ekuatur''), officially the Republic of Ecuador ( es, República del Ecuador, which literally translates as "Republic of the Equator"; Quechua: ''Ikwadur Ripuwlika''; Shuar: ''Eku ...

Description

Tailless. Pronotum spotted with red. Hindwing beneath with red basal spot behind the cell. Subcostal of the hindwing much more proximal than the 2. median. Sexes different from one another, each variable in itself, male-f. ''hyppason'' Cr. (= ''hippasonides'' Grose-Smith) has a broad band on the forewing, mostly abbreviated. In male-f ''ptilion'' R. & J. the band of the forewing is narrow and placed farther from the cell. The female occurs likewise in 2 principal forms: female-f.''amosis'' Cr. has a black forewing, on which scarcely a trace of white discal spots is visible. In female-f. ''paraensis'' Bates, on the contrary, the forewing has one or several white or yellowish white spots. These forms occur together, though not everywhere.Jordan, K., in Seitz, A. ( 1907) . The Macrolepidoptera of the World. 5: The Macrolepidoptera of the American faunistic region. Papilionidae 1-45

Biology

The butterfly is found at the edges of swampy woods and has a swift flight. It is a lowland species. The larva feeds on '' Piper belemense''.

References

;Notes ;Sources *Lewis, H. L., 1974 ''Butterflies of the World'' Page 25, figure 5

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hyppason Papilionidae of South America Butterflies described in 1775 {{Papilionidae-stub