Protographium epidaus

Protographium epidaus, the Mexican kite swallowtail or long-tailed kite swallowtail, is a butterfly of the family Papilionidae. It is found in Mexico and Central America.

Protographium epidaus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Papilionidae
Genus:	Protographium
Species:	P. epidaus
Binomial name
Protographium epidaus (Doubleday, 1846)[1]
Synonyms
Papilio epidaus Doubleday, 1846 Eurytides epidaus Neographium epidaus Papilio fenochionis Salvin & Godman, 1868

The wingspan is 40–45 mm.[2]

The larvae feed on Annona reticulata and Rollinia species

Subspecies

There are three recognised subspecies:

• Protographium epidaus epidaus (southern Mexico (Tamaulipas, Puebla, Veracruz, Tabasco, Yucatán, Quintana Roo, N. Oaxaca, N. Chiapas), Belize, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica)
• Protographium epidaus tepicus (Rothschild & Jordan, 1906) western Mexico: Sinaloa, Nayarit, Jalisco, Colima)
• Protographium epidaus fenochionis (Salvin & Godman, 1868) (south-western Mexico: Michoacán, Guerrero, Morelos, Oaxaca, S. Veracruz, Chiapas)

References

1. Protographium at funet
2. Species of Costa Rica Archived 2012-03-31 at the Wayback Machine

Further reading

• 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.