Parides
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Parides aeneas - Muséum de Toulouse | |
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Genus: | Parides Hübner, [1819]
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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 according to Möhn et al., with annotations according to Wilts et al. (2014):[1]
species group: ascanius (disputed: basal/plesiomorphic?)
- 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 (anchises group?)
- Parides montezuma (Westwood, 1842) – Montezuma's cattleheart (possibly new panthonus group)
- Parides phalaecus (Hewitson, 1869)
- Parides photinus (Doubleday, 1844) – pink-spotted cattleheart (basal in anchises group?)
- Parides proneus (Hübner, [1831])
species group: klagesi (incertae sedis)
- Parides klagesi (Ehrmann, 1904)
species group: chabrias
- Parides chabrias (Hewitson, 1852)
- Parides hahneli (Staudinger, 1882) – Hahnel's Amazonian swallowtail
- Parides mithras (Grose-Smith, 1902)
- Parides pizarro (Staudinger, 1884) – formerly P. steinbachi (ascanius group/incertae sedis?)
- Parides quadratus (Staudinger, 1890)
- Parides vercingetorix (Oberthür, 1888) – formerly P. coelus (ascanius group/incertae sedis?)
species group: aeneas
- Parides aeneas (Linnaeus, 1758)
- Parides aglaope (Gray, [1853]) (ascanius group/incertae sedis?)
- Parides burchellanus (Westwood, 1872) (possibly new panthonus group)
- Parides echemon (Hübner, [1813])
- Parides eurimedes (Stoll, [1782]) – pink-checked cattleheart or mylotes cattleheart
- Parides lysander (Cramer, [1775]) – Lysander cattleheart (possibly basalmost living species of group)
- Parides neophilus (Geyer, 1837) – neophilus cattleheart
- Parides orellana (Hewitson, 1852) (tentatively placed here)
- Parides panthonus (Cramer, [1780]) – panthonus cattleheart (possibly new panthonus group)
- Parides tros (Fabricius, 1793)
- Parides zacynthus (Fabricius, 1793)
species group: sesostris (sister to aeneas and/or anchises group/s?)
- 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) (ascanius group/incertae sedis?)
- 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) (ascanius group/incertae sedis?)
- 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
- Racheli, Tommaso an Olmisani. Luca 1998. A cladistic analysis of the genus Parides Hubner, [1819], based on androconial structures (Lepidoptera: Papilionidae). Neue Ent. Nachr. (Marktleuthen),41:119-131.pdf
- Edwin Möhn, 2006 Schmetterlinge der Erde, Butterflies of the world Part XXVI (26), Papilionidae XIII. Parides. Edited by Erich Bauer and Thomas Frankenbach Keltern: Goecke & Evers; Canterbury: Hillside Books. ISBN 978-3-937783-27-7 (Supplement 13 in English - by Racheli)
- Rothschild, W. and Jordan, K. (1906). A revision of the American Papilios. Novitates Zoologicae 13: 411-752. online (and as pdf) (Facsimile edition ed. P.H. Arnaud, 1967).
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