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Eueides lybia (Tiger butterfly)

Synonyms: Eueides cinereomaculatus; Papilio fasciatus; Papilio hypsipyle (heterotypic); Papilio lybia

Wikipedia Abstract

The Lybia Longwing (Eueides lybia) is a butterfly of the Nymphalidae family. It was described by 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.
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Infraspecies

Prey / Diet

Passiflora acuminata[1]
Passiflora aurantia (scarlet passionflower)[2]
Passiflora coccinea (Scarlet passionflower)[1]
Passiflora vitifolia (perfumed passionflower)[2]

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
1Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
2HOSTS - a Database of the World's Lepidopteran Hostplants Gaden S. Robinson, Phillip R. Ackery, Ian J. Kitching, George W. Beccaloni AND Luis M. Hernández
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0