Parides panares
Appearance
Wedge-spotted cattleheart | |
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Species: | P. panares
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Parides panares (Gray, [1853])
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Parides panares, the wedge-spotted cattleheart,[1] is a species of butterfly in the family Papilionidae native to the Americas. The larvae feed on Aristolochia maxima and A. pilosa.[2]
Subspecies
- P. p. panares (Gray, [1853]) (southeastern Mexico)[2]
- P. p. erythrus (Rothchild & Jordan, 1906) (Panama to Colombia)[2]
- P. p. lycimenes (Boisduval, 1836) (southeastern Mexico to Panama)[2][3]
- P. p. paralius (Rothchild & Jordan, 1906) (Ecuador)[2]
- P. p. rachelii K. S. Brown, 1994 (northern Venezuela)[2]
- P. p. tachira T. Racheli, 1991 (southwestern Venezuela)[2]
References
Further reading
Wikispecies has information related to Parides panares.
- Lamas, Gerardo (2004). Atlas of Neotropical Lepidoptera; Checklist: Part4A Hesperioidea–Papilionoidea. Gainesville, Florida: Scientific Publishers, Inc. p. 93. ISBN 0-945417-28-4.
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