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Post by jmg on Nov 19, 2015 15:49:47 GMT
Two photos from the female :
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Post by timmsyrj on Nov 19, 2015 15:57:41 GMT
For me I'm thinking its a Parides larvae, butterflies of Americas website has photos of other Parides larvae which all seen similar to this, black with yellowish white markings with pronounced tubercles, young Mimoides larvae have fine hairs but older larvae are smooth, Parides larvae are similar to other aristolochiae feeders whilst Mimoides larvae are like graphium and eurytides, hairy when young, smooth when older, purely my own observations, I stand corrected if this is wrong.
Tyler, Brown and Wilson, Swallowtail Butterflies of the Americas, plate 59 s.sp agathokles Male fig.M female fig.N, your females are not as yellow as this one figured, and looking at the location it's quite some distance from where these 2 figured specimens came from, they probably are synonymous with arriphus, your other two males look identicle to it.
Rich
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Post by jmg on Nov 19, 2015 16:14:25 GMT
Rich, many thanks ! Heraclides thoas caterpillar ?
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