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Eueides libitina Staudinger 1885

Margarita Beltrán and Andrew V. Z. Brower
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Containing group: Eueides

Introduction

Etymology: Libitina was the Roman goddess of funerals, corpses and death. Her name was also a synonym for death (Libitina).

Characteristics

Early stages:  Eggs cream coloured and approximately 1 x 0.9 mm (h x w). Females usually place 1 to 3 eggs under older leaves of the host plant.  Mature larvae have a black body with orange and yellow stripes and white bands, with black and white scoli and head; length is around 1.7 cm (Brown, 1981).

Geographical distribution

Eueides libitina is distributed from Guyane to the Northwest Amazon. The map below shows an approximate representation of the geographic distribution of this species. The original data used to draw these maps are derived from Brown (1979) which is available at  Keith S. Brown Jr. (1979). Ecological Geography and Evolution in Neotropical Forests.

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Distribution of Eueides libitina and related species. © 2002 Margarita Beltran.

Geographical races

Named geographical races are as follows:

References

Brown K. S. 1979. Ecologia Geográfica e Evolução nas Florestas Neotropicais. 2 vols. (Tese apresentada à Universidade Estadual de Campinas como parte das exigências de um Concurso de Livre Docência, area de Ecologia). Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Campinas, Brazil.

Lamas, G. 1998 Comentarios taxonómicos y nomenclaturales sobre Heliconiini neotropicales con designación de lectotipos y descripción de cuatro subespecies nuevas (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae: Heliconiinae). Rev. Per. Ent. 40, 111-125.

Lamas, G. (ed.) 2004 Atlas of Neotropical Lepidoptera. Checklist: Part 4A Hesperioidea - Papiionoidea. Gainesville: Scientific Publishers/Association of Tropical Lepidoptera.

Libitina. Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libitina [Accessed Aug 16, 2008].

Staudinger O. 1885 I. Theil. Exotische Tagfalter in systematischer Reihenfolge mit Berücksichtigung neuer Arten. In: Staudinger, O. & E. Schatz, 1884-1892, Exotische1-5 (early June 1884), (2): 7-10, pls. -58, pls. 36-40 (early April 1885), (9/10): 59-82, pls. 41-50 (mid August 1885), (11/12): 83-102, pls. 51-60 (mid November 1885), (13): 103-122.

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Scientific Name Eueides libitina malleti
Specimen Condition Dead Specimen
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Collection Gerardo Lamas
Type Paratype
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Scientific Name Eueides libitina malleti
Specimen Condition Dead Specimen
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Collection Gerardo Lamas
Type Paratype
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Middle Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro, Tennessee, USA

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