Parides vertumnus
Parides vertumnus | |
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Specimen in the collection of Muséum de Toulouse | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Papilionidae |
Genus: | Parides |
Species: | P. vertumnus |
Binomial name | |
Parides vertumnus (Cramer, 1779) | |
Synonyms | |
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Parides vertumnus is a species of butterfly in the family Papilionidae. It is found in the Neotropical ecozone.
The larvae feed on Aristolochia species including A. elegans, A. odoratissima and A. acutifolia.
Subspecies
- P. v. vertumnus Guianas, Surinam, French Guiana, eastern Venezuela [1]
- P. v. cutora (Gray, [1853]) Brazil (Amazonas, Pará)
- P. v. diceros (Gray, [1853]) Brazil (Pará)
- P. v. bogotanus (C. & R. Felder, 1864) Colombia, Ecuador, northeastern Peru
Etymology
It is named in the classical tradition. In Roman mythology, the god Vertumnus could change his form at will.
References
- Collins, N. Mark; Morris, Michael G. (1985). Threatened Swallowtail Butterflies of the World: The IUCN Red Data Book. Gland & Cambridge: IUCN. ISBN 978-2-88032-603-6.
- Edwin Möhn, 2006 Schmetterlinge der Erde, Butterflies of the World Part XXVI (26), Papilionidae XIII. Parides. Edited by Erich Bauer and Thomas Frankenbach Keltern: Goecke & Evers; Canterbury: Hillside Books. ISBN 978-3-937783-27-7 (Supplement 13 in English - by Racheli)
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