Parides panares

Wedge-spotted Cattleheart
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Papilionidae
Tribe:	Troidini
Genus:	Parides
Species:	P. panares
Binomial name
*Parides panares* (Gray, [1853])
Synonyms
Papilio panares Gray, [1853]

Parides panares is a species of butterfly in the family Papilionidae native to the Americas. It is commonly known as the Wedge-spotted Cattleheart.^[1] The larvae feed on Aristolochia maxima and A. pilosa.^[2]

Subspecies

Parides panares panares (Gray, [1853]) (southeastern Mexico)^[2]
Parides panares erythrus (Rothchild & Jordan, 1906) (Panama to Colombia)^[2]
Parides panares lycimenes (Boisduval, 1836) (southeastern Mexico to Panama)^[2]
Parides panares paralius (Rothchild & Jordan, 1906) (Ecuador)^[2]
Parides panares rachelii K. S. Brown, 1994 (northern Venezuela)^[2]
Parides panares tachira T. Racheli, 1991 (southwestern Venezuela)^[2]

References

^ Warren, A. D.; et al (2010). "Parides panares". Butterflies of America. http://www.butterfliesofamerica.com/t/Parides_panares_a.htm. Retrieved 21 January 2011.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g Savela, Markku. "Parides panares". funet.fi. http://www.nic.funet.fi/pub/sci/bio/life/insecta/lepidoptera/ditrysia/papilionoidea/papilionidae/papilioninae/parides/index.html#panares. Retrieved 21 January 2011.

Further reading

Lamas, Gerardo (2004). Atlas of Neotropical Lepidoptera; Checklist: Part4A Hesperioidea–Papilionoidea. Gainsville, Florida: Scientific Publishers, Inc. p. 93. ISBN 0-945417-28-4.