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Eueides lybia

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Class
  
Insecta

Family
  
Nymphalidae

Rank
  
Species

Phylum
  
Arthropoda

Order
  
Lepidoptera

Genus
  
Eueides

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Similar
  
Eueides aliphera, Eueides, Anartia fatima, Eueides isabella, Urbanus simplicius

Eueides lybia, the lybia longwing, is a butterfly of the Nymphalidae family. It was described by Johan Christian Fabricius in 1775. It is found from Central America to northern South America, from Nicaragua to Bolivia.

Adults feed on flower nectar of Lantana and Psiguria species. They spend most of the time in the forest canopy.

The larvae feed on solitarily Passiflora vitifolia. They are black with white patches on the thorax and anal segment and a yellowish stripe along the sides. The head is black. Pupation takes place in a white pupa which is suspended by the cremaster from a leaf.

Subspecies

  • Eueides lybia lybia (Suriname)
  • Eueides lybia lybioides Staudinger, 1876 (Costa Rica, Panama)
  • Eueides lybia olympia (Fabricius, 1793) (Nicaragua to Colombia)
  • Eueides lybia orinocensis Brown & Fernández, 1985 (Venezuela)
  • Eueides lybia otelloi Brown & Fernández, 1985 (Venezuela)
  • Eueides lybia salcedoi Brown & Fernández, 1985 (Venezuela)

    • References

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