Parides bunichus

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Parides bunichus
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P. b. damocrates, male
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P. b. chamissonia
Scientific classification OOjs UI icon edit-ltr.svg
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Papilionidae
Genus: Parides
Species:
P. bunichus
Binomial name
Parides bunichus
(Hübner, [1821]) [1]
Synonyms
  • Menelaides bunichusHübner, [1821]
  • Papilio ascalusGodart, [1924]
  • Papilio chamissoniaEschscholtz, 1821
  • Papilio echedorusBoisduval, 1836
  • Papilio eurydorusLucas, 1852
  • Papilio archimidesLarrañaga, 1923
  • Papilio campeiroFoetterle, 1902
  • Parides chamissonia
  • Parides diodorus
  • Papilio perrhebusBoisduval, 1836
  • Parides perrhebus

Parides bunichus is a butterfly of the family Papilionidae. It is found in Brazil, Paraguay, Argentina and Uruguay.

Contents

The larva is brownish black, with an oblique white band, extending laterally from the 6th segment to the tubercle on the 7th. The pupal stage lasts three weeks.

The butterfly is very common and is one of the earliest spring species (August). From August to April there are at least three generations.

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P. b. bunichus

Subspecies

Status

Parides bunichus is common and not threatened. [3]

Taxonomy

Parides bunichus is a member of the ascanius species group [4] ("Fringe-spots white. Hindwing with submarginal spots and usnally also discal spots or dots, or a discal band; mostly with tail") A quadrate whitish spot in space 2 of the forewings is quite peculiar of the ascanius group [5]

The members are

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References

  1. ↑ "Parides at funet". Nic.funet.fi. 2012-04-28. Retrieved 2012-06-11.
  2. ↑ Jordan, K., in Seitz, A. ( 1907) . The Macrolepidoptera of the World. 5: The Macrolepidoptera of the American faunistic region. Papilionidae 1-45. PD-icon.svg This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain .
  3. ↑ 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 – via Biodiversity Heritage Library.
  4. ↑ Rothschild, W. and Jordan, K. (1906). A revision of the American Papilios. Novitates Zoologicae 13: 411-752. online (and as pdf) (Facsimile edition ed. P.H. Arnaud, 1967).
  5. ↑ Racheli, Tommaso an Olmisani. Luca 1998. A cladistic analysis of the genus Parides Hubner, [1819], based on androconial structures (Lepidoptera: Papilionidae). Neue Ent. Nachr. (Marktleuthen),41:119-131.pdf


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