Euryades duponchelii
| Euryades duponchelii | |
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| Euryades duponchelii (bottom right) | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Papilionidae |
| Genus: | Euryades |
| Species: | E. duponchelii |
| Binomial name | |
| Euryades duponchelii (Lucas, 1839) | |
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Euryades duponchelii is a species of butterfly from the family Papilionidae that is found in Brazil, Argentina, Paraguay, Uruguay, and Bolivia.
Alto Paraná Atlantic forests habitat
It is a woodland species and not threatened.
The larvae feed on Aristolochia species.[1]
The two species in the genus Euryades are more closely related to Cressida than to other South American Papilionidae with larvae that feed on Aristolochia.
References
- Edwin Möhn, 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.
- 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.
- Lewis, H. L., 1974 Butterflies of the World ISBN 0-245-52097-X Page 23, figure 6.
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