Eueides lybia

Lybia Longwing
Dorsal view
Ventral view
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Nymphalidae
Subfamily:	Heliconiinae
Genus:	Eueides
Species:	E. lybia
Binomial name
Eueides lybia (Fabricius, 1775)
Synonyms
Papilio lybia Fabricius, 1775 Papilio hypsipyle Cramer, 1777 Papilio olympia Fabricius, 1793 Eueides leucomma Bates, 1866 Eueides lybioides Staudinger, 1876

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,^[1] 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.^[2]

Subspecies

• Eueides lybia lybia (Surinam)
• Eueides lybia lybioides Staudinger, 1876 (Costa Rica, Panama)
• Eueides lybia olympia (Fabricius, 1793) (Nicaragua to Colombia)
• Eueides lybia orinocensis Brown & Fernández, 1985 (Venezuela)
• Eueides lybia otelloi Brown & Fernández, 1985 (Venezuela)
• Eueides lybia salcedoi Brown & Fernández, 1985 (Venezuela)

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