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Mimoides ilus

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Species of butterfly

Ilus swallowtail
M. i. branchus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Papilionidae
Genus: Mimoides
Species: M. ilus
Binomial name
Mimoides ilus
(Fabricius, 1793)
Synonyms
  • Papilio ilus Fabricius, 1793
  • Papilio hostilius C. Felder & R. Felder, 1861
  • Papilio guaco Staudinger, 1876
  • Eurytides branchus Doubleday, 1846

Mimoides ilus, the Ilus swallowtail or dual-spotted swallowtail, is a species of butterfly in the family Papilionidae. It is found from Mexico to Colombia and Venezuela. Little is known about this rare butterfly, but it is not considered threatened. The larvae of M. i. branchus feed on Annotata reticulata.

Subspecies

M. i. branchus
  • Mimoides ilus ilus (Fabricius, 1793) (Panama to northern Colombia and central Venezuela)
  • Mimoides ilus branchus (Doubleday, 1846) (eastern Mexico to northern Costa Rica)
  • Mimoides ilus occiduus (Vázquez, 1957) (western Mexico)

Description from Seitz

For a key to the terms used, see Glossary of entomology terms.

P. ilus F. (= hostilius Fldr.; guaco Stgr. (14a). Male and female: under surface without red basal spots on the forewing, with 4 red basal spots on the hindwing. Forewing with or without a patch in the extremity of the cell, with 2 or 3 white spots on the disc, the posterior one, placed behind the 3. median, the largest. North Venezuela, Northern Colombia, Panama; rare in collections.

  • Seitz Plate 14 belesisand branchus Seitz Plate 14 belesisand branchus

References

  1. ^ Warren, A. D.; et al. (2010). "Mimoides ilus". Butterflies of America. Retrieved 24 December 2010.
  2. Glassberg, Jeffrey (2007). A Swift Guide to the Butterflies of Mexico and Central America. Sunstreak Books Inc. p. 13. ISBN 978-1-4243-0915-3.
  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.
  4. Savela, Markku. "Mimoides ilus". funet.fi. Retrieved 24 December 2010.
  5. Jordan, K. , in Seitz, A. ( 1907) . The Macrolepidoptera of the World. 5: The Macrolepidoptera of the American faunistic region. Papilionidae 1-45. Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
  • Lewis, H. L., 1974 Butterflies of the World ISBN 0-245-52097-X Page 23, figure 12 (as E. belesis).

Further reading

  • Lamas, Gerardo (2004). Atlas of Neotropical Lepidoptera; Checklist: Part4A Hesperioidea–Papilionoidea. Gainesville, Florida: Scientific Publishers, Inc. p. 89. ISBN 0-945417-28-4.
Taxon identifiers
Mimoides ilus


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