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Philaethria dido (False malachite butterfly)

Synonyms: Papilio dido (heterotypic); Papilio didon; Papilio nigromaculatus (heterotypic); Philaethria steneles

Wikipedia Abstract

The scarce bamboo page or dido longwing (Philaethria dido) is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found in Central America and tropical South America, both east and west of the Andes, from Brazil and Ecuador northwards to Mexico. Strays can sometimes be found in the lower Rio Grande Valley in southern Texas.
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Infraspecies

Philaethria dido chocoensis
Philaethria dido diatonica
Philaethria dido dido
Philaethria dido ostara
Philaethria dido panamensis
Philaethria dido pygmalion
Philaethria dido wernickei

Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  .234 grams
Speed [1]  5.592 MPH (2.5 m/s)

Prey / Diet

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1FLIGHT PHYSIOLOGY OF NEOTROPICAL BUTTERFLIES: ALLOMETRY OF AIRSPEEDS DURING NATURAL FREE FLIGHT, ROBERT DUDLEY AND ROBERT B. SRYGLEY, J. exp. Biol. 191, 125–139 (1994)
♦ 2Jorrit 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.
♦ 3HOSTS - 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