Parides

Cattleheart butterflies
Parides aeneas - Muséum de Toulouse
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Papilionidae
Subfamily:	Papilioninae
Tribe:	Troidini
Genus:	Parides Hübner, [1819]
Species
Numerous, see text
Synonyms
Hectorides Hübner, 1821 Endopogon Lacordaire, 1833 Ascanides Geyer, 1837 Blakea Grote, 1875

Parides, commonly called cattlehearts, is a genus of swallowtail butterflies in the family Papilionidae. They are found in the Americas (Neotropical ecozone).

Species

Listed alphabetically within groups:^[1]
species group: ascanius

• Parides agavus (Drury, 1782)
• Parides alopius (Godman & Salvin, [1890]) – white-dotted cattleheart
• Parides ascanius (Cramer, [1775]) – Fluminense swallowtail
• Parides bunichus (Hübner, [1821])
• Parides gundlachianus (C. & R. Felder, 1864) – Cuban cattleheart
• Parides montezuma (Westwood, 1842) – Montezuma's cattleheart
• Parides phalaecus (Hewitson, 1869)
• Parides photinus (Doubleday, 1844) – pink-spotted cattleheart
• Parides proneus (Hübner, [1831])

species group: klagesi

• Parides klagesi (Ehrmann, 1904)

species group: chabrias

• Parides chabrias (Hewitson, 1852)
• Parides coelus (Boisduval, 1836) syn Parides vercingetorix (Oberthür, 1888)
• Parides hahneli (Staudinger, 1882) – Hahnel's Amazonian swallowtail
• Parides mithras (Grose-Smith, 1902)
• Parides pizarro (Staudinger, 1884)
• Parides quadratus (Staudinger, 1890)
• Parides vercingetorix (Oberthür, 1888)

species group: aeneas

• Parides aeneas (Linnaeus, 1758)
• Parides aglaope (Gray, [1853])
• Parides burchellanus (Westwood, 1872)
• Parides echemon (Hübner, [1813])
• Parides eurimedes (Stoll, [1782]) – pink-checked cattleheart or mylotes cattleheart
• Parides lysander (Cramer, [1775]) – Lysander cattleheart
• Parides neophilus (Geyer, 1837) – neophilus cattleheart
• Parides orellana (Hewitson, 1852)
• Parides panthonus (Cramer, [1780]) – panthonus cattleheart
• Parides tros (Fabricius, 1793)
• Parides zacynthus (Fabricius, 1793)

species group: sesostris

• Parides childrenae (Gray, 1832) – green-celled cattleheart
• Parides sesostris (Cramer, [1779]) – emerald-patched cattleheart

species group: anchises

• Parides anchises (Linnaeus, 1758) – Anchises cattleheart
• Parides cutorina (Staudinger, 1898)
• Parides erithalion (Boisduval, 1836) – variable cattleheart
• Parides iphidamas (Fabricius, 1793) – Transandean cattleheart
• Parides panares (Gray, [1853]) – wedge-spotted cattleheart
• Parides phosphorus (H.W. Bates, 1861)
• Parides vertumnus (Cramer, [1779])

References

• Gerardo Lamas (edited by) (2004). Atlas of Neotropical Lepidoptera. Checklist: Part4A. Hesperioidea-Papilionoidea. Scientific Publishers, Inc., Gainesville, FL. ISBN 0-945417-28-4
• Jeffrey Glassberg (2007). A Swift Guide to the Butterflies of Mexico and Central America. Sunstreak Books Inc. ISBN 978-1-4243-0915-3

External links

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Wikispecies has information related to: Parides

• BOA Photographs of type specimens.
• Parides MNH
• Pteron