Protesilaus orthosilaus

Protesilaus orthosilaus
P. orthosilaus and related species in Adalbert Seitz's Fauna Americana
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Papilionidae
Genus: Protesilaus
Species: P. orthosilaus
Binomial name
Protesilaus orthosilaus
(Weymer, 1899) [1]
Synonyms
  • Papilio orthosilaus Weymer, 1899
  • Papilio ampliornatus Röber, 1925

Protesilaus orthosilaus is a species of butterfly found in the Neotropical ecozone (the Mato Grosso of Brazil and also Paraguay).

Description

Antenna yellow-brown, not black. Frons yellowish white at the sides. Forewing transparent: hindwing strongly dentate, above also with a median band, the postdiscal band and the black margin merged into a broad marginal band, the yellowish marginal and submarginal lunules smaller. Paraguay and Gojaz in Brazil; rare.[2]

Status

Formerly believed to be rare, but has now been seen to occur over a very wide area of the Mato Grosso where it can be seen year round in the cerrado. Males are found in sandy areas and females seek nectar.

Further reading

References

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


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