Eurytides

Eurytides
	Eurytides marcellus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Clade:	Pancrustacea
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Papilionidae
Tribe:	Leptocircini
Genus:	Eurytides; Hübner, [1821]
Synonyms
	Asiographium Möhn, 2002. Type-species: Papilio asius Fabricius, 1781; Bellerographium Möhn, 2002. Type species: Eurytides bellerophon (Dalman, 1823); Eurygraphium Möhn, 2002. Type-species: Papilio thyastes Drury, 1782; Neographium Möhn, 2002. Type species: Neographium philolaus (Boisduval, 1836);

Eurytides is a genus of butterflies in the family Papilionidae, found in North, Central, and South America. Members of this genus are commonly known as kite swallowtails.

Species

The following species are recognised in the genus Eurytides:

Subgenus Bellerographium Möhn, 2002

Eurytides bellerophon (Dahlman, 1823)

Subgenus Eurytides

Eurytides salvini (Bates, 1864) – Salvin's kite swallowtail
Eurytides columbus (Kollar, 1850)
Eurytides orabilis (Butler, 1872) – thick-edged kite swallowtail
Eurytides serville (Godart, 1824) – Serville swordtail
Eurytides callias (Rothschild & Jordan, 1906) – Callias kite swallowtail
Eurytides dolicaon (Cramer, [1776]) – dolicaon kite swallowtail
Eurytides iphitas Hübner, [1821] – yellow kite swallowtail

Subgenus Neographium Möhn, 2002:

Eurytides thyastes Drury, 1782) - Brazil
Eurytides calliste (H. Bates, 1864), Yellow kite-swallowtail - Guatemala
Eurytides dioxippus (Hewitson, [1856]), thick-bordered kite-swallowtail - Colombia
Eurytides leucaspis (Godart, 1819) - Peru?
Eurytides epidaus (E. Doubleday, 1846), Mexican kite-swallowtail - Mexico (Yucatan); Honduras
Eurytides agesilaus (Guérin-Méneville & Percheron, 1835) - Mexico to Bolivia & Paraguay
Eurytides × oberthueri Rothschild & Jordan, 1906 - Mexico, Honduras Theoretically a natural hydrid between E. agesilaus and E. philolaus.
Eurytides philolaus (Boisduval, 1836) – dark kite swallowtail - Texas, USA & northern Mexico to Colombia & Venezuela
Eurytides zonaria (A. Butler, 1869), Hispaniolan kite-swallowtail - Hispaniola
Eurytides anaxilaus (C. Felder & R. Felder, 1865), small kite-swallowtail - Panama, northern Colombia, N Venezuela
Eurytides celadon (Lucas, 1852), Cuban kite-swallowtail - Cuba & Isla de Juventud
Eurytides marcellinus (E. Doubleday, [1845]), Jamaican kite-swallowtail - Jamaica
Eurytides asius (Fabricius, 1781) - South America

Subgenus Boreographium Grishin, 2021

Eurytides marcellus (Cramer, 1777), Zebra swallowtail - eastern USA & Canada

Some species have been moved to genus Mimoides.

References

↑ "Papilionidae of the Americas 21-XI-2017". www.butterfliesofamerica.com. Retrieved 2022-12-08.
↑ "A Catalogue of the Butterflies of the United States and Canada by Jonathan P. Pelham". www.butterfliesofamerica.com. Retrieved 2022-12-08.
↑ taxonomy. "Taxonomy browser (Eurytides)". www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov. Retrieved 2022-12-08.

Möhn, Edwin (2002). Schmetterlinge der Erde, Butterflies of the World Part XIIII (14), Papilionidae VIII: Baronia, Euryades, Protographium, Neographium, Eurytides. Edited by Erich Bauer and Thomas Frankenbach Keltern:Goecke & Evers; Canterbury:Hillside Books. ISBN 978-3-931374-87-7 All species and subspecies are included, also most of the forms. Several females are shown the first time in colour.

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[1] "Papilionidae of the Americas 21-XI-2017". www.butterfliesofamerica.com. Retrieved 2022-12-08.

[2] "A Catalogue of the Butterflies of the United States and Canada by Jonathan P. Pelham". www.butterfliesofamerica.com. Retrieved 2022-12-08.

[3] taxonomy. "Taxonomy browser (Eurytides)". www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov. Retrieved 2022-12-08.

Eurytides

Eurytides marcellus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Clade:	Pancrustacea
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Papilionidae
Tribe:	Leptocircini
Genus:	Eurytides Hübner, [1821]
Synonyms
Asiographium Möhn, 2002. Type-species: Papilio asius Fabricius, 1781 Bellerographium Möhn, 2002. Type species: Eurytides bellerophon (Dalman, 1823) Eurygraphium Möhn, 2002. Type-species: Papilio thyastes Drury, 1782 Neographium Möhn, 2002. Type species: Neographium philolaus (Boisduval, 1836)