Mimoides xynias

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| image_caption = M. x. xynias - Chapare, Bolivia

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| taxon = Mimoides xynias

| authority = (Hewitson, 1875)

| synonyms = *Papilio xynias Hewitson, 1875

  • Eurytides xynias
  • Papilio trapeza f. trapezoides Niepelt, 1913
  • Papilio trapeza Rothschild & Jordan, 1906
  • Papilio harmodius xeniades ♀-f. androna Rothschild & Jordan, 1906
  • Papilio xynias xisuthrus Niepelt, 1908
  • Papilio trapeza concoloratus Joicey & Talbot, 1922

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Mimoides xynias is a species of butterfly in the family Papilionidae. It is found in the Neotropical realm.

Subspecies

Description from Seitz

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P. xynias Hew. (13 c). Forewing with large pale green area at the hindmargin; hindwing acutely dentate, with short, narrow tail and a few red discal spots posteriorly. Beneath the forewing has a white, very faintly- green hindmarginal spot, which is smaller than the spot on the upper surface. No scent-scales. Female not known. — Eastern slopes of the Andes of Bolivia and Peru.

P. trapeza R. & J. (13 c). Forewing narrower in the middle than in harmodius, the hindmargin

shorter, a white spot at the hindmargin, not extending to the 2. median; hindwing triangular, sharply dentate, with 2 to 4- red spots from the hindmargin forwards, the posterior spot the largest. Beneath the white hindmarginal spot of the forewing is longer than in all the forms of harmodius. Female unknown. — East Ecuador and North-East Peru

Jordan, K. , in Seitz, A. ( 1907) . The Macrolepidoptera of the World. 5: The Macrolepidoptera of the American faunistic region. Papilionidae 1-45. {{PD-notice}}

File:Macrolepidoptera15seit 0035.jpg| Seitz Plate 13

File:NovitatesZoologicaeVolumeXIII1906PlateV.jpg|Novitates Zoologicae 1906 Plate 5

References

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  • {{cite book |last1=Collins |first1=N. Mark |last2=Morris |first2=Michael G. |title=Threatened Swallowtail Butterflies of the World: The IUCN Red Data Book |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/98674#page/7/mode/1up |year=1985 |publisher=IUCN |location=Gland & Cambridge |isbn=978-2-88032-603-6 |via=Biodiversity Heritage Library}}