Protographium leucaspis

Protographium leucaspis is a species of butterfly found in the Neotropical ecozone

Protographium leucaspis
Protographium leucaspis. Mounted specimen
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Insecta
Order:
Lepidoptera
Family:
Papilionidae
Genus:
Protographium
Species:
P. leucaspis
Binomial name
Protographium leucaspis
(Godart, 1819) [1]
Synonyms
  • Papilio leucaspis Godart, 1819
  • Papilio leucaspis lamis Rothschild & Jordan, 1906 (preocc. Cramer, 1779)

Subspecies

Distribution

This species is present in Colombia, easter Ecuador, nortnern Peru, Bolivia and western Venezuela.[1]

Description

Protographium leucaspis can reach a wingspan of almost 10 cm (3.9 in). These large butterflies have a frons entirely brownish black. The abdomen is yellowish beneath. The wings have a commontriangular green-yellow area, and a brown marginal area with blackish hues parallel to the margin.

lamis R.& J. The posterior cell-spots of the forewing is large, very distinct also beneath.

leucaspis Godt. The cell-spots of the forewing is smaller, usually only indicated beneath, the two outer posterior cell-spots arte more widely separated from one another.[2]

Status

Common and not threatened.[3]

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).
  • Tyler, H. A.; Brown Jr., K. S.; Wilson, K. H. (1994) Swallowtail Butterflies of the Americas. A Study in Biological Dynamics, Ecological Diversity, Biosystematics, and Conservation., Tyler, H. A.; Brown Jr., K. S.; Wilson, K. H. (1994) Swallowtail Butterflies of the Americas. A Study in Biological Dynamics, Ecological Diversity, Biosystematics, and Conservation. , Scientific Publishers, Gainesville, Florida.
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References
  1. Protographium at Funet
  2. Karl Jordan, 1916 Papilio In A. Seitz (editor), Macrolepidoptera of the world,vol. 5: 617–738. Stuttgart: Alfred Kernen also available as pdf
  3. Collins, N. Mark; Morris, Michael G. (1985). Threatened Swallowtail Butterflies of the World: The IUCN Red Data Book. Gland & Cambridge: IUCN. ISBN 978-2-88032-603-6 – via Biodiversity Heritage Library.


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