Laparus
Billberg, 1820
L. doris (C. Linnaeus, 1771)
forms: amathusia (P. Cramer, 1777), tecta (H.H. Riffarth, 1900), albina (E. Boullet & F.L. Le Cerf, 1909), gibbsi (W.J. Kaye, 1919), dialis (Stichel, 1923)
———albescens (H. Neustetter, 1926), delila (J. Hübner, [1813]), mars (O. Staudinger, 1885), metharmina (O. Staudinger, 1897)
f. doris – Brazil?
f. doris – Brazil?
f. delila – Brasnorte, Mato Grosso Brazil 21/7/1987
f. delila – French Guyana/Peru? (double label)
f. mars / dialis ? – Iquitos, Santa Maria Peru 19/1/1993
f. metharmina – Iquitos, Peru 19/1/1993
f. metharmina – Tres Fronteras Putumayo River, Loreto Peru
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f. doris x delila – Km 25 route Puyo-Tena Pastaza Prov. Ecuador 11/2007
f. doris x delila – Iquitos Peru (?) 1-2/2010
f. delila x metharmina – Crystal Mayo 900m.n.m.Prov. Cochabamba Bolivia 25/1/2005
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L. doris obscurus (G. Weymer, 1891)
forms: aristomache (H.H. Riffarth, 1901)
MALE – Medellin Cauca Colombia 1/2010
FEMALE – Medellin Cauca Colombia 1/2010
MALE – Colombia
unnamed green form H&H pag. 48 – Medellin Cauca Colombia 12/2010
unnamed green form H&H pag. 48 – Colombia?
f. aristomache – Colombia
f. aristomache – Cali, Colombia 1969
form near aristomache H&H pag. 48 – Otanche Colombia 2004(5)?
green form like aristomache – Boyaca Otanche Colombia 1997
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doris doris x doris obscurus f. aristomache – Caura Venezuela 2/2009 – intermediate FW band – three ssp. meet in the area
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L. doris dives (C. Oberthür, 1920)
forms: viridana (H.F.E.J. Stichel, 1906), suavior (W.J. Kaye, 1914), fascinator (W.J. Kaye, 1914)
Santo Paraiso, Colombia, 11/1984
Colombia
f. suavior aberration, total lack of red, small traces of blue visible in HW costa
blue traces (typical of above red specimen) indicated by arrow
f. like ‘suavior’ – Central Peru(?)
f. like ‘suavior’ – Otanche Colombia 11/2012
f. near ‘fascinator’ – Otanche Colombia 2011
f. near ‘fascinator’ – Otanche Colombia 11/2012
The above forms occur at a low percentage (~ 1/2000-3000) in normal populations of yellow banded individuals. These specimens come from controlled “open” farming: some wild plants visited by normal doris and rich in pupae are isolated with nets.
f. viridana – Bogotà Colombia
Probabe Hybrids _________________________________________________________________________
dives x doris – Otanche Colombia 2004(5)?
dives x obscurus – Otanche Colombia
dives x obscurus – MALE – Rio Calima Colombia – H&H pag. 48 cited under ‘eratonius’
dives x obscurus – FEMALE – Medellin Cauca Colombia 12/2010
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L. doris viridis (O. Staudinger, 1885)
forms: eratonius (O. Staudinger, 1897), transiens (O. Staudinger, 1897), luminosus (H.H. Riffarth, 1901)
Prov. San José, coastal range Dominical, 25 Km SW San Isidro de El General, Costa Rica 28/11/1995
f. transiens – Sierra de Juarez, Palomares Oaxaca, Mexico 4/2004
f. transiens – Yucatan Mexico 7/1988
f. transiens – La Ceiba Honduras 4/2006
f. eratonius – Uvita 600m Costa Rica 4/2011
f. luminosa – near Pinuela Prov. Puntarenas, Costa Rica 2/2012
VERSO surface
L. doris morralli (Cast 2020)
[Trinidad] (W.M. Neukirchen, Lamas (2004)
green form Cats Hill, Trinidad, Trinidad & Tobago 12/2018 leg. John Morral
Very odd doris doris
doris doris – Tingo Maria Peru 3/3/2011
FW spots
FW apical spots close up showing different coloured scales