Parides
| Cattleheart butterflies | |
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| Parides aeneas - Muséum de Toulouse | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Papilionidae |
| Subfamily: | Papilioninae |
| Tribe: | Troidini |
| Genus: | Parides Hübner, [1819] |
| Species | |
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Numerous, see text | |
| Synonyms | |
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Parides, commonly called cattlehearts, is a genus of swallowtail butterflies in the family Papilionidae. They are found in the Americas (Neotropical ecozone).
Species
Listed alphabetically within groups:[1]
species group: ascanius
- Parides agavus (Drury, 1782)
- Parides alopius (Godman & Salvin, [1890]) – white-dotted cattleheart
- Parides ascanius (Cramer, [1775]) – Fluminense swallowtail
- Parides bunichus (Hübner, [1821])
- Parides gundlachianus (C. & R. Felder, 1864) – Cuban cattleheart
- Parides montezuma (Westwood, 1842) – Montezuma's cattleheart
- Parides phalaecus (Hewitson, 1869)
- Parides photinus (Doubleday, 1844) – pink-spotted cattleheart
- Parides proneus (Hübner, [1831])
species group: klagesi
- Parides klagesi (Ehrmann, 1904)
species group: chabrias
- Parides chabrias (Hewitson, 1852)
- Parides coelus (Boisduval, 1836) syn Parides vercingetorix (Oberthür, 1888)
- Parides hahneli (Staudinger, 1882) – Hahnel's Amazonian swallowtail
- Parides mithras (Grose-Smith, 1902)
- Parides pizarro (Staudinger, 1884)
- Parides quadratus (Staudinger, 1890)
- Parides vercingetorix (Oberthür, 1888)
species group: aeneas
- Parides aeneas (Linnaeus, 1758)
- Parides aglaope (Gray, [1853])
- Parides burchellanus (Westwood, 1872)
- Parides echemon (Hübner, [1813])
- Parides eurimedes (Stoll, [1782]) – pink-checked cattleheart or mylotes cattleheart
- Parides lysander (Cramer, [1775]) – Lysander cattleheart
- Parides neophilus (Geyer, 1837) – neophilus cattleheart
- Parides orellana (Hewitson, 1852)
- Parides panthonus (Cramer, [1780]) – panthonus cattleheart
- Parides tros (Fabricius, 1793)
- Parides zacynthus (Fabricius, 1793)
species group: sesostris
- Parides childrenae (Gray, 1832) – green-celled cattleheart
- Parides sesostris (Cramer, [1779]) – emerald-patched cattleheart
species group: anchises
- Parides anchises (Linnaeus, 1758) – Anchises cattleheart
- Parides cutorina (Staudinger, 1898)
- Parides erithalion (Boisduval, 1836) – variable cattleheart
- Parides iphidamas (Fabricius, 1793) – Transandean cattleheart
- Parides panares (Gray, [1853]) – wedge-spotted cattleheart
- Parides phosphorus (H.W. Bates, 1861)
- Parides vertumnus (Cramer, [1779])
References
- Gerardo Lamas (edited by) (2004). Atlas of Neotropical Lepidoptera. Checklist: Part4A. Hesperioidea-Papilionoidea. Scientific Publishers, Inc., Gainesville, FL. ISBN 0-945417-28-4
- Jeffrey Glassberg (2007). A Swift Guide to the Butterflies of Mexico and Central America. Sunstreak Books Inc. ISBN 978-1-4243-0915-3
External links
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- BOA Photographs of type specimens.
- Parides MNH
- Pteron
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