Parides panares

Wedge-spotted Cattleheart

Figures 4 accompanying Gray's original description
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]

The Wedge-spotted Cattleheart^[1] (Parides panares) is a species of butterfly in the family Papilionidae native to the Americas. 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]^[3]
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. Retrieved 21 January 2011.
↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 Savela, Markku. "Parides panares". funet.fi. Retrieved 21 January 2011.
↑ Lewis, H. L., 1974 Butterflies of the World ISBN 0-245-52097-X Page 26, figure 13

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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