Parides vertumnus

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

Similar Parides chabrias, Parides aeneas, Parides lysander, Parides phosphorus, Parides echemon

Parides vertumnus is a species of butterfly in the family Papilionidae. It is found in the Neotropical ecozone.

The larvae feed on Aristolochia species including A. elegans, A. odoratissima and A. acutifolia.

Subspecies

P. v. vertumnus Guianas, Surinam, French Guiana, eastern Venezuela

P. v. cutora (Gray, [1853]) Brazil (Amazonas, Pará)

P. v. diceros (Gray, [1853]) Brazil (Pará)

P. v. bogotanus (C. & R. Felder, 1864) Colombia, Ecuador, northeastern Peru

It is named in the classical tradition. In Roman mythology, the god Vertumnus could change his form at will.

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