Eurytides
Genus of butterflies
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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.
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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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Species
The following species are recognised in the genus Eurytides:[1][2][3]
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.
