Eueides lybia

Lybia longwing
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Ventral view
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Nymphalidae
Genus:	Eueides
Species:	E. lybia
Binomial name
Eueides lybia (Fabricius, 1775)
Synonyms
Papilio lybia Fabricius, 1775 Papilio hypsipyle Cramer, 1777 Papilio olympia Fabricius, 1793 Eueides leucomma Bates, 1866 Eueides lybioides Staudinger, 1876

Eueides lybia, the lybia longwing, is a butterfly of the family Nymphalidae. It was described by Johan Christian Fabricius in 1775. It is found from Central America to northern South America,[1] from Nicaragua to Bolivia.[2]

Subspecies

• Eueides lybia lybia (Suriname)
• Eueides lybia lybioides Staudinger, 1876 (Costa Rica, Panama)
• Eueides lybia olympia (Fabricius, 1793) (Nicaragua to Colombia)
• Eueides lybia orinocensis Brown & Fernández, 1985 (Venezuela)
• Eueides lybia otelloi Brown & Fernández, 1985 (Venezuela)
• Eueides lybia salcedoi Brown & Fernández, 1985 (Venezuela)

References

1. "Eueides Hübner, 1816" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
2. Eueides lybia, Learn about Butterflies