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Eurytides iphitas Hübner, 1821

Yellow kite swallowtail, Yellow kite

 

 

Taxonomy & Nomenclature

 

 

Conservation Status

Missing

Last record: 1937 (Domagała & González, 2021)

IUCN status: Vulnerable

 

Distribution

Brazil

 

Biology & Ecology

 

 

Hypodigm

Two specimens were reported by (Domagała & González, 2021).

 

Media

 

 

References

Original scientific description:

Hübner, Jacob. (1821). Sammlung exotischer Schmetterlinge Bd.2: pl. 92. Augsburg.

 

Other references:

Collins, N. Mark and Morris, Michael G. (1985). Threatened Swallowtail Butterflies of the World. The IUCN Red Data Book. Gland, Switzerland/Cambridge, UK: IUCN. vii + 401 pp. + 8 pls.

Gimenez Dixon, M. (1996). Eurytides iphitas. In: IUCN 2012. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2012.2. (http://www.iucnredlist.org). Downloaded on 09 November 2012.

Domagała, Paweł J. and González, Jorge M. (2021). Notes on Two Specimens of the Rare Swallowtail Eurytides iphitas Hübner, [1821] (Papilionidae) from the Friedrich Wilhelm Niepelt Collection in the Museum of Natural History, University of Wrocław, Poland. The Journal of the Lepidopterists' Society 75(1): 65-69. doi: https://doi.org/10.18473/lepi.75i1.a8 [Abstract]

http://swallowtails.net/E_iphitas.htm

 

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