Euryades duponchelii

Euryades duponchelii is a species of butterfly from the family Papilionidae first described by Hippolyte Lucas in 1839. It is found in Brazil, Argentina, Paraguay, Uruguay, and Bolivia.

Alto Paraná Atlantic forests habitat

Euryades duponchelii
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
(H. Lucas, 1839)
Synonyms
  • Papilio duponchelii H. Lucas, 1839
  • Euryades reevii Westwood, 1872

It is a woodland species and not threatened.

E. duponcheli unlike Euryades corethrus is tailed. The male is velvety black, with a yellow band of large patches in the middle and on the hindwing also two rows of red spots, of which the submarginal row is only indicated above. The female is yellow brown, black distally and in the cell of the forewing, the macular band above is only indicated by two subcostal patches, which are situated on the forewing; the red spots of the hindwing above are vivid red. The under surface for the most part is grey yellow.[1]

  • Seitz

The larvae feed on Aristolochia species.[2]

The two species in the genus Euryades are more closely related to the Australasian clearwing swallowtail (Cressida cressida) than to other South American Papilionidae with larvae that feed on Aristolochia.

References
  1. Seitz, A. ed. Band 1: Abt. 1, Die Großschmetterlinge des palaearktischen Faunengebietes, Die palaearktischen Tagfalter, 1909, 379 Seiten, mit 89 kolorierten Tafeln (3470 figuren) This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
  2. Savela, Markku (February 5, 2013). "Euryades duponchelii (Lucas, 1839)". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved July 22, 2020.
  • 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 – via Biodiversity Heritage Library.
  • Lewis, H. L., 1974 Butterflies of the World ISBN 0-245-52097-X Page 23, figure 6.


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