| Eurytides | |
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| Eurytides marcellus | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Clade: | Pancrustacea |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Papilionidae |
| Tribe: | Leptocircini |
| Genus: | Eurytides Hübner, [1821] |
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Eurytides is a genus of butterflies in the family Papilionidae, found in North, Central, and South America. Members of this genus are commonly known as kite swallowtails.
Species
The following species are recognised in the genus Eurytides:123
Subgenus Bellerographium Möhn, 2002
- Eurytides bellerophon (Dahlman, 1823)
Subgenus Eurytides
- Eurytides salvini (Bates, 1864) – Salvin's kite swallowtail
- Eurytides columbus (Kollar, 1850)
- Eurytides orabilis (Butler, 1872) – thick-edged kite swallowtail
- Eurytides serville (Godart, 1824) – Serville swordtail
- Eurytides callias (Rothschild & Jordan, 1906) – Callias kite swallowtail
- Eurytides dolicaon (Cramer, [1776]) – dolicaon kite swallowtail
- Eurytides iphitas Hübner, [1821] – yellow kite swallowtail
Subgenus Neographium Möhn, 2002:
- Eurytides thyastes Drury, 1782) - Brazil
- Eurytides calliste (H. Bates, 1864), Yellow kite-swallowtail - Guatemala
- Eurytides dioxippus (Hewitson, [1856]), thick-bordered kite-swallowtail - Colombia
- Eurytides leucaspis (Godart, 1819) - Peru?
- Eurytides epidaus (E. Doubleday, 1846), Mexican kite-swallowtail - Mexico (Yucatan); Honduras
- Eurytides agesilaus (Guérin-Méneville & Percheron, 1835) - Mexico to Bolivia & Paraguay
- Eurytides × oberthueri Rothschild & Jordan, 1906 - Mexico, Honduras Theoretically a natural hydrid between E. agesilaus and E. philolaus.
- Eurytides philolaus (Boisduval, 1836) – dark kite swallowtail - Texas, USA & northern Mexico to Colombia & Venezuela
- Eurytides zonaria (A. Butler, 1869), Hispaniolan kite-swallowtail - Hispaniola
- Eurytides anaxilaus (C. Felder & R. Felder, 1865), small kite-swallowtail - Panama, northern Colombia, N Venezuela
- Eurytides celadon (Lucas, 1852), Cuban kite-swallowtail - Cuba & Isla de Juventud
- Eurytides marcellinus (E. Doubleday, [1845]), Jamaican kite-swallowtail - Jamaica
- Eurytides asius (Fabricius, 1781) - South America
Subgenus Boreographium Grishin, 2021
- Eurytides marcellus (Cramer, 1777), Zebra swallowtail - eastern USA & Canada
Some species have been moved to genus Mimoides.
References
References
- "Papilionidae of the Americas 21-XI-2017". www.butterfliesofamerica.com. Retrieved 2022-12-08.
- "A Catalogue of the Butterflies of the United States and Canada by Jonathan P. Pelham". www.butterfliesofamerica.com. Retrieved 2022-12-08.
- taxonomy. "Taxonomy browser (Eurytides)". www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov. Retrieved 2022-12-08.
- Möhn, Edwin (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.