Urania fulgens
| Urania swallowtail moth | |
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| Urania fulgens - MHNT | |
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| Urania fulgens △ - MHNT | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Uraniidae |
| Subfamily: | Uraniinae |
| Genus: | Urania |
| Species: | U. fulgens |
| Binomial name | |
| Urania fulgens (Walker, 1854) | |
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Urania fulgens, the urania swallowtail moth, is a day-flying moth of the Uraniidae family. It is found from Veracruz, Mexico, through Central America to northwestern South America (west of the Andes and south to Ecuador).[1][2] It is highly migratory and has been recorded as a vagrant to Texas, USA.[2]
It is sometimes confused with the similar U. leilus, but that species is found east of the Andes in South America, is slightly larger, and has more white to the "tail".[1] The two have been treated as conspecific.[1]
As appears to be the case for all Urania, the larvae of U. fulgens feed exclusively on the toxic Omphalea species.[3]
References
- 1 2 3 Smith, N.G. (1972). Migrations of the day-flying moth Urania in Central and South America. Caribbean Journal of Science 12: 45-58
- 1 2 Quinn, M. (2011). Urania Natural History. Texas Lep Information. Accessed 12 October 2011.
- ↑ Lees, D.C. and N.G. Smith (1991). Foodplant Associations of the Uraniinae (Uraniidae) and their Systematic, Evolutionary, and Ecological Significance. Journal of the Lepidopterists' Society 45(4): 296-347.
Bibliography
http://www.texasento.net/Urania.html#Lees
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