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Protesilaus orthosilaus

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Protesilaus orthosilaus
P. orthosilaus and related species in Adalbert Seitz's Fauna Americana
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
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 realm (the Mato Grosso of Brazil and also Paraguay).

Description

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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

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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.

References

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  1. ^ Protesilaus 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

Further reading

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  • 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).
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