Philaethria dido
Creators: name: Constantino, Luis Miguel
name: Salazar, Julian A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2010
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Nymphalidae
Philaethria
Philaethria dido

description: Key to species of the Philaethria dido complex
1. VHW inner postdiscal band black ................................................................................................................................ 2
- VHW inner postdiscal band brown............................................................................................................................... 4
2. VHW submarginal cellular spots well developed......................................................................................................... 3
- VHW submarginal cellular spots diffuse and continuous............................................................................................. 5
3. VHW medial postdiscal band red; VHW submarginal band red without white; VHW discal area with silver reflec- tion (Figs.2–5) .......................................................................................................................................................... dido
- VHW medial postdiscal band orange; FW postmedial area very reduced; FW medial cell bar orange (Figs. 8–9); Chocó. W. Colombia ................................................................................................................................... constantinoi
4. VHW inner submarginal band black; outer submarginal band brown; postcellular spots small; VFW anal cell bar brown (Fig. 7); Mexico to Panama .................................................................................................................. diatonica
- VHW inner postdiscal band terra-cotte ........................................................................................................................ 6
5. VHW medial postdiscal band white as wide as the inner postdiscal band (Fig. 10); Rio de Janeiro, Brazil ................. ........................................................................................................................................................................ wernickei
- VHW medial postdiscal band white very narrow (Fig. 11–12) ..................................................................... pygmalion
6. VHW medial postdiscal band white; HW postcellular spots very large; FW postmedial green area large, forewing leght very large; Santa Marta, Rancho Grande, C. Merida (Figs.13–17) ............................................................ neildi
- VHW medial postdiscal band gray; Montane, E. Andes; Venezuela to Bolivia ...................................................... 7
7. VHW outer submarginal band black; inner postdiscal band brown (Fig. 22,23) ................................................. ostara
- VHW outer submarginal band brown; inner postdiscal band black (Fig.18) ....................................................... andrei
8. VHW cellular spots very large...................................................................................................................................... 9
- VHW inner and outer submarginal bands brown; marginal cellular spot brown; (Figs.26–27).......................... browni
9. VHW inner postdiscal band brown very narrow; DHW with row of 8 marginal green spots on dorsum, FW postme- dial green area large (Fig. 28) ............................................................................................................................ romeroi
description: Published as part of Constantino, Luis Miguel & Salazar, Julian A., 2010, A review of the Philaethria dido species complex (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae: Heliconiinae) and description of three new sibling species from Colombia and Venezuela, pp. 1-27 in Zootaxa 2720 on page 4, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.199882