title: Eurytides leucaspis
text: # Eurytides leucaspis
  
  Eurytides leucaspis is a species of butterfly found in the Neotropical realm.
  
  ## Taxonomy
  
  There are two subspecies recognised:
  
  * E. l. leucaspis - northern Colombia, eastern Ecuador, northern Peru, Bolivia
  * E. l. lamidis Brown & Lamas, 1994 - western Venezuela (Tachira), Colombia
  
  ## Description
  
  Eurytides leucaspis can reach a wingspan of almost 10 cm (3.9 in). These large butterflies have a frons entirely brownish black. The abdomen is yellowish beneath. The wings have a common triangular green-yellow area, and a brown marginal area with blackish hues parallel to the margin.
  
  lamis R.& J. The posterior cell-spots of the forewing is large, very distinct also beneath.
  
  leucaspis Godt. The cell-spots of the forewing is smaller, usually only indicated beneath, the two outer posterior cell-spots arte more widely separated from one another.
  
  ## Distribution
  
  This species is present in Colombia, eastern Ecuador, northern Peru, Bolivia and western Venezuela.
  
  ## Status
  
  Common and not threatened.
  
  