Eurytides columbus

Eurytides columbus
Eurytides columbus and related species in Adalbert Seitz's Fauna Americana
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Papilionidae
Genus:	Eurytides
Species:	E. columbus
Binomial name
Eurytides columbus (Kollar, 1850)[1]
Synonyms
Papilio columbus Kollar, 1850 Papilio hippodamus Doubleday, [1845] Papilio hippodamus C. & R. Felder, 1864 Papilio burtoni Reakirt, 1868 Papilio hippodamus var. fulva Oberthür, 1879

Eurytides columbus is a species of butterfly found only in Colombia (Muzo, Bogotá, Cali, Rio Calima, Rio Bravo) and northwest Ecuador (Rio Lita, Rio Llurimagua, Rio Mira).

Very nearly allied to Eurytides serville (Godart, 1824) the narrow green costal band of the forewing more oblique than in E. serville, marginal area of the forewing beneath more purplish white, the blackish lines in it and the yellowish streak on the underside of the abdominal fold of the hindwing less distinct than in E. serville; the black distal area of the hindwing sometimes touches the cell, but does not enter it. Specimens with yellowish instead of deep red anal spot are ab. fulva Oberthur. Female similar to the male. Cordillera of Bogota to the west coast of Colombia, north-west Ecuador.[2]

Status

No known threats [3]

Taxonomy

Possibly conspecific with E. serville.

References

1. Eurytides at Funet
2. Karl Jordan, 1916 Papilio In A. Seitz (editor), Macrolepidoptera of the world,vol. 5: 617–738. Stuttgart: Alfred Kernen [1] also available as pdf
3. 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.

Further reading

• D'Abrera, B. (1981). Butterflies of the Neotropical Region. Part I. Papilionidae and Pieridae. Lansdowne Editions, Melbourne, xvi + 172 pp.
• D'Almeida, R.F. (1965). Catalogo dos Papilionidae Americanos. Sociedade Brasileira de Entomologia. São Paulo, Brasil.
• Rothschild, W. and Jordan, K. (1906). A revision of the American Papilios. Novitates Zoologicae 13: 411–752.online (and as pdf) (Facsimile edition ed. P.H. Arnaud, 1967).