''Protesilaus earis'', the Rothschild's swordtail, is a species of
butterfly
Butterflies are insects in the macrolepidopteran clade Rhopalocera from the order Lepidoptera, which also includes moths. Adult butterflies have large, often brightly coloured wings, and conspicuous, fluttering flight. The group comprises ...
found in the
Neotropical realm
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Definition
In bi ...
(southeast
Brazil
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,
Paraguay
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,
Argentina
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).
Description
Antenna dark yellowish brown. Frons yellowish at the sides. Wings slightly yellowish, beneath slightly reddish; bands narrow, 4. band of the forewing reduced to a small spot, 6. band close to the lower angle of the cell; the yellowish marginal and submarginal spots of the hindwing narrow, above and beneath smaller than in the name-typical ''protesilaus''; hindwing beneath with long arrow-shaped patch before the abdominal margin, this patch reduced in ''protesilaus''. Dorsal margin of the harpe slightly widened, ventral process non-dentate, not extending to the lower edge of the clasper, central process short, broad, spatulate, strongly dentate. Eastern Ecuador, widely distributed.
Status
Uncommon and little known. No known threats.
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References
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).
External links
Images of
holotype
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Papilionidae
Fauna of Brazil
Papilionidae of South America
Butterflies described in 1906
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