Parides tros

Parides tros
Museum specimen of Parides tros female.
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Papilionidae
Genus: Parides
Species: P. tros
Binomial name
Parides tros
(Fabricius, 1793)
Synonyms
  • Papilio tros Fabricius, 1793
  • Papilio dardanus Fabricius, 1793 (preocc. Brown, 1776)
  • Papilio opleus Godart, 1819

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

The larva feeds on Aristolochia - A. rumicifolia, A. cynanchifolia (tros tros), A. triangularis (tros danunciae).

Subspecies

References

  1. Lewis, H. L., 1974 Butterflies of the World ISBN 0-245-52097-X Page 26, figure 26
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