Parides lysander

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Kingdom Animalia Class Insecta Family Papilionidae Rank Species		Phylum Arthropoda Order Lepidoptera Genus Parides

Similar Parides aeneas, Parides echemon, Parides vertumnus, Parides chabrias, Parides panthonus

Parides lysander, the Lysander cattleheart, is a species of butterfly in the family Papilionidae. It is found in the Neotropical ecozone.

The larvae feed on Aristolochia species including A. huberiana, A. sprucei, A. littoralis, A. ruiziana, and A. leuconeura.

Subspecies

P. l. lysander Guianas

P. l. parsodes (Gray, [1853]) Brazil (Pará)

P. l. brissonius (Hübner, [1819]) Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, S.Peru, Brazil (Amazonas)

P. l. mattogrossensis (Talbot, 1928) Brazil (Mato Grosso)

P. l. antalcidas Tyler, Brown & Wilson, 1994 Brazil (Pará)

P. l. orinocoensis Constantino, Le Crom & Salazar, 2002 Colombia

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