Parides neophilus

Parides neophilus
Male
Female P. n. parianus, Trinidad
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Papilionidae
Genus:	Parides
Species:	P. neophilus
Binomial name
Parides neophilus (Geyer, 1837)
Synonyms
Priamides neophilus Geyer, 1837 Papilio anaximenes C. & R. Felder, 1862 Papilio neophilus consus Rothschild & Jordan, 1906 Papilio neophilus ecbolius Rothschild & Jordan, 1906 Papilio eurybates Gray, [1853] Papilio eupales Gray, [1853] Papilio eurybates f. autumnalis Köhler, 1923 Papilio neophilus parianus Rothschild & Jordan, 1906 Papilio olivencius Bates, 1861 Papilio schuppi Röber, 1927 Battus (Parides) neophilus napoensis Varea, 1975

Parides neophilus, the spear-winged cattleheart, is a species of butterfly in the family Papilionidae. It is found in the Neotropical ecozone.

The larvae feed on Aristolochia trilobata and Aristolochia colombiana.

Subspecies

• P. n. neophilus – Guianas, Surinam, southern Venezuela
• P. n. anaximenes (C. & R. Felder, 1862) – Peru
• P. n. consus (Rothschild & Jordan, 1906) – Bolivia
• P. n. ecbolius (Rothschild & Jordan, 1906) – Brazil (Pará, Amazonas)
• P. n. eurybates (Gray, [1853]) – Brazil (Mato Grosso, western São Paulo, Rio Grande do Sul), Paraguay, Argentina (Misiones)
• P. n. parianus (Rothschild & Jordan, 1906) – Trinidad, Venezuela
• P. n. olivencius (Bates, 1861) – Colombia, Peru, Brazil (Amazonas)
• P. n. napoensis Varea, 1975 – eastern Ecuador

References

• Collins, N. Mark; Morris, Michael G. (1985). Threatened Swallowtail Butterflies of the World: The IUCN Red Data Book. Gland & Cambridge: IUCN. ISBN 978-2-88032-603-6.
• Lewis, H.L. (1974). Butterflies of the World ISBN 0-245-52097-X Page 26, figure 16
• Möhn, Edwin (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)