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Parides panares

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Class
  
Insecta

Family
  
Papilionidae

Scientific name
  
Parides panares

Phylum
  
Arthropoda

Order
  
Lepidoptera

Tribe
  
Troidini

Rank
  
Species

Parides panares

Similar
  
Parides childrenae, Parides eurimedes, Parides erithalion, Parides phosphorus, Parides vertumnus

Parides panares, the wedge-spotted cattleheart, is a species of butterfly in the family Papilionidae native to the Americas. The larvae feed on Aristolochia maxima and A. pilosa.

Subspecies

  • P. p. panares (Gray, [1853]) (southeastern Mexico)
  • P. p. erythrus (Rothchild & Jordan, 1906) (Panama to Colombia)
  • P. p. lycimenes (Boisduval, 1836) (southeastern Mexico to Panama)
  • P. p. paralius (Rothchild & Jordan, 1906) (Ecuador)
  • P. p. rachelii K. S. Brown, 1994 (northern Venezuela)
  • P. p. tachira T. Racheli, 1991 (southwestern Venezuela)

    • References

    Parides panares Wikipedia
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