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Papilio anchisiades (Rubyspot swallowtail)

Synonyms: Heraclides anchisiades; Heraclides anchisiades lamasi; Papilio archelaus; Papilio ideus; Papilio theramenes

Wikipedia Abstract

Papilio anchisiades, the ruby-spotted swallowtail or red-spotted swallowtail, is a butterfly of the family Papilionidae. It is found from southern Texas south to Argentina. Rare strays can be found up to Kansas, southeastern Arizona, and western Texas. The wingspan is 70–100 mm. There are several generations per year with adults on wing from May to October. The larvae feed on various species of the Rutaceae family, including Citrus, Casimiroa, and Zanthoxylum species. The adults feed on flower nectar.
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Infraspecies

Papilio anchisiades anchisiades
Papilio anchisiades capys
Papilio anchisiades idaeus
Papilio anchisiades philastrius

Attributes

Diet [1]  Herbivore
Litter Size [2]  342

Prey / Diet

Prey / Diet Overlap

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Casimiroa pringlei[4]

External References

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Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Myers, P., R. Espinosa, C. S. Parr, T. Jones, G. S. Hammond, and T. A. Dewey. 2006. The Animal Diversity Web (online). Accessed February 01, 2010 at animaldiversity.org
♦ 2Body size, egg size, and their interspecific relationships with ecological and life history traits in butterflies (Lepidoptera: Papilionoidea, Hesperioidea), Enrique García-Barros, Biological Journal of the Linnean Society (2000), 70: 251–284
♦ 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
♦ 4Jorrit 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.
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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