Parides sesostris
| Emerald-patched Cattleheart | |
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| Parides sesostris - Muséum de Toulouse | |
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| Parides sesostris △ - Muséum de Toulouse | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Papilionidae |
| Tribe: | Troidini |
| Genus: | Parides |
| Species: | P. sesostris |
| Binomial name | |
| Parides sesostris (Cramer, 1779) | |
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Parides sesostris is a species of butterfly in the family Papilionidae. It is commonly known as the Emerald-patched Cattleheart and the Southern Cattleheart.[1][2]
Subspecies
- Parides sesostris sesostris (Cramer, 1779) (Suriname to eastern Ecuador and south to northern Peru and Brazil)[3][4]
- Parides sesostris tarquinius (Boisduval, 1836) (Panama to western Ecuador and western Venezuela)[3]
- Parides sesostris trinitensis K. S. Brown, 1994 (Trinidad)[3]
- Parides sesostris zestos (Gray [1853]) (southeastern Mexico to Costa Rica, excluding El Salvador)[1][2][3]
- Parides sesostris zischkai (Forster, 1955) (Bolivia)[3]
Description
Parides sesostris has a wingspan reaching 100–110 millimetres (3.9–4.3 in). The head, the thorax and the abdomen are black. The basic colour of the upperside of the forewings is black, with large green areas on the basal portion of the forewings. The underside of the forewings is dark-brown. The underside of the hind wings is dark-brown, with chain of red spots on the outer edge.The hind wings are scalloped but they have no tails. The larvae feed on Aristolochia barbata, A. bicolor, A. grandiflora, A. sprucei, and A. trianae.[3] It is not threatened.[2]
Distribution
This species is native to the Americas. It is widespread from Mexico until Brazil and Peru.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Warren, A. D.; et al (2010). "Parides sesostris". Butterflies of America. Retrieved 19 January 2011.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Collins, N. Mark; Collins, Michael G. (1985). Threatened Swallowtails of the World: The IUCN Red Data Book. IUCN Protected Area Programme Series. Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, U.K.: IUCN. p. 69. ISBN 978-2-88032-603-6.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 Savela, Markku. "Parides sesostris". funet.fi. Retrieved 19 January 2011.
- ↑ Lewis, H. L., 1974 Butterflies of the World ISBN 0-245-52097-X Page 26, figure 23, female
Further reading
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- Lamas, Gerardo (2004). Atlas of Neotropical Lepidoptera; Checklist: Part4A Hesperioidea–Papilionoidea. Gainesville, Florida: Scientific Publishers, Inc. pp. 92–93. ISBN 0-945417-28-4.
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