Eurytides calliste

Eurytides calliste is a species of butterfly in the family Papilionidae. It is found in the Neotropical realm.

Description
Bands and spots of the wings pale yellow or greenish yellow, similarly arranged as in Protographium dioxippus; submarginal row of the forewing curved; hindwing with 2, rarely 3 red spots, and with 2 very large greenish yellow marginal spots from the 2. radial to the 1. median; underside of the hindwing with pale marginal band.

Subspecies

 * E. c. calliste SE.Mexico (Puebla, Veracruz, Tabasco, Campeche, Yucatán, Quintana Roo, Oaxaca, Chiapas), Belize, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras.The two outer cell-bands of the forewing clearly developed and the last but two more or less indicated, the discal area eraarginate at the cell before the 2. median.
 * E. c. olbius (Rothschild & Jordan, 1906) Costa Rica - Panama (Chiriqui) Larger than the preceding (nominate) form; also the outer cell-bands of the forewing suffused with black in the middle; discal band broader, the black marginal area on both wings consequently narrower than in calliste; submarginal line of the forewing only vestigial from the 1. median backwards.