Eurytides serville

Eurytides serville
	Eurytides serville. Mounted specimen, dorsal view
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Papilionidae
Genus:	Eurytides
Species:	E. serville
Binomial name
	Eurytides serville; (Godart, 1824) [1]
Synonyms
	Papilio serville Godart, [1824]; Papilio boliviana Weeks, 1905; Papilio serville boliviana Fruhstorfer, 1907; Papilio serville ab. xanthocellis Boullet & Le Cerf, 1912; Papilio serville acritus Rothschild & Jordan, 1906;

Eurytides serville is a species of butterfly found in the Neotropical realm.

Description

Forewing with broad black cell-band, which runs obliquely from the costal margin to the marginal area, being united with the latter. In the forewing the first and send subcostal distally confluent with the costa, the second subcostal rarely free. No red or yellow band is present on the under surface of the hindwing. In E. s. acritus the spots on head and breast small, also the yellowish lateral stripe of the abdomen reduced, these markings sometimes absent; cell of the hindwing usually without blackish streaks. E. s. serville spots on breast and head always present, abdomen with two yellowish stripes on each side, of which the upper one is broad; cell-streaks of the forewing distinct, the subapical area of the cell always shaded with brown; the pale patches before the margin of the hindwing, on the under surface, more distinct than in E. s. acritus. [2]

Subspecies

E. s. serville (southern Colombia, Peru, Bolivia, Ecuador: Rio Napo, Loja)
E. s. acritus (Rothschild & Jordan, 1906) (Colombia: east Cordillera, north-western Venezuela: Tachira, Mérida)

Status

Common. No known threats.[3]

Taxonomy

Possibly conspecific with Eurytides columbus.

References

Eurytides at Funet
Karl Jordan, 1916 Papilio In A. Seitz (editor), Macrolepidoptera of the world,vol. 5: 617–738. Stuttgart: Alfred Kernen also available as pdf
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.

External links

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[1] Eurytides 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.