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Papilio epycides Hewitson, [1864]

Taxonomy

class Insecta → subclass Pterygota → infraclass Neoptera → superorder Holometabola → order Lepidoptera → superfamily Papilionoidea → family Papilionidae → subfamily Papilioninae → tribe Papilionini → genus Papilio → species Papilio epycides

Species name(s)

Papilio epycides Hewitson, [1864] = Chilasa epycides. [85, PC]

The Lesser Mime.

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Expansion

Zoogeographical regions

Indo-Malayan.

Detailed information with references

Taxonomy, synonyms and combinations

Chilasa epycides. [PC81].

Imago Habitus and Differences from alike species

Wingspan 60-75 mm. UP is dark brown, marked with silver-gray stripes and long spots. It mimics with Parantica aglea, but differs in having a yellow spot at tornus of HW which is not present in Parantica. [144].

Subspecies of Papilio epycides

Papilio epycides curiatius Fruhstorfer, 1902. [85]
P. e. epycides Hewitson, [1864]. [85]
P. e. horatius Blanchard, 1871. [85]
P. e. hypochra Jordan, 1909. [85]
P. e. melanoleucus Ney, 1911. [85]
P. e. yamabuki (Yoshino, 2008). [85]

Authors

Initial species uploading to the site: Peter Khramov.

Photos: Alex Dumchus.

Text data: Dmitriy Pozhogin, Svetlana Shchavelina.

The species characteristics formalization: Peter Khramov.

References

[85] Lepidoptera species catalogue, Lepidoptera.ru, 2015
[144] Pisuth Ek-Amnuay "Butterflies of Thailand". 2nd Revised edition. Bangkok, 2012
[PC81] Dmitriy Pozhogin

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