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Short-horned Baronia

Conservation status
Near Threatened (IUCN 2.3)^[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Papilionidae
Subfamily:	Baroniinae Bryk, 1913
Genus:	Baronia
Species:	B. brevicornis
Binomial name
*Baronia brevicornis* Salvin 1893

The Short-horned Baronia (Baronia brevicornis) is a species of butterfly in the Papilionidae family. It is monotypic within the genus Baronia. It is endemic to Mexico.

The species is found in a very small area of Mexico and is of particular importance due to its relict nature and uncertain relationship to other subfamilies such as the Parnassiinae. Morphological characteristics include an abdominal scent organ in females.^[2]^[3]

The distribution of the species in Mexico is patchy and restricted.^[4]^[5]

References

^ Gimenez Dixon, M. 1996. Baronia brevicornis. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 31 July 2007.
^ Robbins, Robert K. (1989) Systematic implications of butterfly leg structures that clean the antennae. Psyche 96:209-222 Full text
^ Häuser, C. L. 1992. A new abdominal scent organ in females of Baronia brevicornis (Lepidoptera: Papilionidae). Zoologischer Anzeiger 229(1/2):54-62.
^ Luis-Martinez, A.; J Llorente-Bousquets; Isable Vargas-Fernandez & A D Warren (2003) Biodiversity and biogeography of Mexican butterflies (Lepidoptera: Papilionoidea and Hesperioidea). Proc. Entomol. Soc. Wash. 105(1):209-224 PDF
^ Llorente-Bousquets, J & A. Luis-Martinez (1993) Conservation-oriented analysis of Mexican butterflies: Papilionidae (Lepidoptera, Papilionoidea). In Ramammorthy, T.P., J. Fa, R. Bye y A. Lot (Eds.). 1993. The biological diversity of Mexico: origins and distributions. Oxford University Press. PDF