Archaeoprepona demophon, the one-spotted prepona, banded king shoemaker, or demophon shoemaker[1] is a butterfly belonging to the family Nymphalidae.

Description

The wingspan reaches about 54–58 millimetres (2.1–2.3 in). The uppersides of the wings are black, with bright pale blue transverse bands. The undersides are pale brown with a clearer band in the middle of the hindwings and several dark small dots on the margins.

Foodplants

The butterfly larva generally feed on plants of the genus Annona (Annonaceae) and on Malpighia glabra (Malpighiaceae). Adults visit rotten fruit or dung.

Distribution

This species can be found in Mexico, Central America, the West Indies, and northern portions of South America.

Habitat

Archaeoprepona demophon prefers the edges of forest canopy and subcanopy.

Subspecies

  • Archaeoprepona demophon demophon (Linnaeus, 1758) – Surinam
  • Archaeoprepona demophon extincta (Staudinger, 1886) – Brazil (D.F.)
  • Archaeoprepona demophon centralis (Fruhstorfer, [1905]) – Mexico, Honduras, to Panama
  • Archaeoprepona demophon muson (Fruhstorfer, 1905) – Colombia, Ecuador, Bolivia
  • Archaeoprepona demophon occidentalis (Stoffel & Descimon, 1974) – Mexico
  • Archaeoprepona demophon thalpius (Hübner, [1814]) – Brazil (Santa Catarina, Minas Gerais, Espírito Santo, Bahia, Rio Grande do Sul))

References

  1. ^ Archaeoprepona demophon[usurped], Butterflies of the Amazon and the Andes
  • DeVries, Philip J. (1987). The Butterflies of Costa Rica and Their Natural History, Volume I: Papilionidae, Pieridae, Nymphalidae. Princeton University Press, New Jersey, 327 pp.
  • Lewis, H. L. (1974). Butterflies of the World. ISBN 0-245-52097-X
  • Especies de Costa Rica
  • Llorente-Bousquets, J., Descimon, H., and K. Johnson. (1993). Taxonomy and biogeography of Archaeoprepona demophoon in Mexico, with description of a new subspecies (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae: Charaxinae). Tropical Lepidoptera 4(1): 31-36. pdf


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