Eurytides leucaspis

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| taxon = Eurytides leucaspis

| authority = (Godart, 1819) [http://www.nic.funet.fi/pub/sci/bio/life/insecta/lepidoptera/ditrysia/papilionoidea/papilionidae/papilioninae/protographium/index.html Protographium at Funet]

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Papilio leucaspis Godart, 1819
Papilio leucaspis lamis Rothschild & Jordan, 1906 (preocc. Cramer, 1779)
Protographium leucaspis (Godart, 1819)

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

Taxonomy

There are two subspecies recognised:

E. l. leucaspis - northern Colombia, eastern Ecuador, northern Peru, Bolivia
E. l. lamidis Brown & Lamas, 1994 - western Venezuela (Tachira), Colombia

Description

Eurytides leucaspis can reach a wingspan of almost {{cvt|10|cm}}. These large butterflies have a frons entirely brownish black. The abdomen is yellowish beneath. The wings have a common triangular 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.Karl Jordan, 1916 Papilio In A. Seitz (editor), Macrolepidoptera of the world,vol. 5: 617–738. Stuttgart: Alfred Kernen [https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/126193#page/7/mode/1up] also available as pdf

Distribution

This species is present in Colombia, eastern Ecuador, northern Peru, Bolivia and western Venezuela.

Status

Common and not threatened.{{cite book |last1=Collins |first1=N. Mark |last2=Morris |first2=Michael G. |date=1985 |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/98674#page/7/mode/1up |title=Threatened Swallowtail Butterflies of the World: The IUCN Red Data Book |publisher=IUCN |location=Gland & Cambridge |isbn=978-2-88032-603-6 |via=Biodiversity Heritage Library}}