Genus Eurytides

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Tiger Swallowtail ? - Eurytides marcellus

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Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Class Insecta (Insects)

Order Lepidoptera (Butterflies and Moths)

Superfamily Papilionoidea (Butterflies (excluding skippers))

Family Papilionidae (Swallowtails, Parnassians)

Subfamily Papilioninae

Genus Eurytides

Other Common Names

Kite Swallowtails

Numbers

Nearctica.com lists two North American species.

Range

Neotropical, one species ranges into temperate North America.

Habitat

Forests, adjacent areas

Food

Adult males take fluid from damp sand.

Life Cycle

Larvae feed on foliage of plants in the Custard Apple family (Annonaceae).

Remarks

Sometimes Eurytides is subsumed under Graphium, the rather similar swallowtails of the old world tropics.

Print References

DeVries discusses natural history of genus. (1)

Works Cited

1.	The Butterflies of Costa Rica and Their Natural History, Vol. I: Papilionidae, Pieridae, Nymphalidae By Philip J. Devries

Contributed by Cotinis on 3 April, 2004 - 6:29am
Last updated 10 June, 2004 - 3:03pm

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