[2] The larvae feed on Aristolochia species including: A. brazilsis, A. bukuti, A. colombiana, A. cymbifera, A. fimbriata, A. inflata, A. macroura, A. odora, A. ringens, and A.

Male: tibiae and 1. segment of the tarsi thickened and covered with fine hairs; hindwing blue, strongly iridescent.

Female: cell-spot narrow; band of the hindwing entering the end of the cell, black outer margin wider than in iphidamas.

Male: the green area very long and narrow, only- a little wider posteriorly than anteriorly; band of the hindwing consisting of at least five spots.

Female: the cell-spot usually extending transversely across the cell; the band of the hindwing very little paler internally than externally.

Female: spots of the forewing purer white than in the preceding subspecies;cell-spot small; band of the hindwing almost unicolorous red, broadest in the middle.

Male : green area narrow, sometimes wanting; hindwing more strongly dentate than in the other forms, the red spots usually widely separated.

Lower Amazon, from Para to Santarem; occurs in dry, sandy places in the forest, not in the swamps.

The red band on the hindwing of the male is uniformly curved and becomes gradually narrower anteriorly; the forewing has at least one large white spot.

In the female a spot in the cell of the forewing and at least two on the disc; hindwing with a band from the subcostal to the hindmargin.

Paraguay; northern part of Entre Rios; Matto Grosso; Goyaz.