[1] Some individuals have one or two rows of smaller light colored spots along the outer margin of the hindwing.

The forewing has a row of whitish spots along the outer margin, which may be reduced or lacking in some individuals.

Spots on the upper surface of the forewing bluish yellow-grey or purer white -yellow; discal band of the hindwing grey-blue, rarely red.

eridamas Reak., the red band of the hindwing narrow, the spots composing it separated; these two forms only known from East and South Mexico ; ab.

ulopos Gray (= immarginatus Oberth), forewing without spots or with only indications of them, band of the hindwing broad, entering more or less far into the cell; ab.

therodamas Feldr., with discal and submarginal spots on the forewing and narrow, slanting band on the hindwing, separated from the cell; ab.

has on the hindwing a very large blue-green discal area, occupying a good part of the cell; in ab.

[6] In October, 2008, M. p. phaon was found in the Lower Rio Grande Valley in southern Texas, making it the first swallowtail of the genus Mimoides to stray into the United States.