Reference photo of a pinned Protesilaus protesilaus specimen, upper side

Reference photo

Photo: Michel-georges bernard · Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped and resized; shared under the same licence). Not the specimen in Lucy’s drawer.

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Protesilaus protesilaus

(Linnaeus, 1758)

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Your framed specimen is a different individual of the same species, chosen and mounted by Lucy.

  • Papilionidae
  • Butterfly
Catalog label
Family
Papilionidae
Subfamily
Papilioninae
Tribe
Leptocircini
Where it lives
Mexico – Paraguay.

From the catalog of Lucy Garcia Salik, PhD. A mounted specimen from a licensed supplier.

Research notes

From published sources, not from Lucy’s catalog. Each note lists where it came from.

Description

In English this butterfly is called the Great Kite-Swallowtail. Some major lists put it in the genus Eurytides instead of Protesilaus, so the same butterfly can show up under the name Eurytides protesilaus.

Where it lives

The sources split this butterfly into regional subspecies. The Central American form, dariensis, is listed from Costa Rica and Panama, with one source extending it into northern Venezuela. The nominate form is listed from Venezuela south to Bolivia and Peru, and also from parts of southeastern Brazil, including São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro. Taken together, the sources place the species in the American tropics.

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