Parides childrenae

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Green-celled cattleheart
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Papilionidae
Genus: Parides
Species:
P. childrenae
Binomial name
Parides childrenae
Gray, 1832 [1]

Parides childrenae, the green-celled cattleheart, is a species of butterfly in the family Papilionidae. [2] It is found in southern North America and northern South America.

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Description

The upperside of the wings is black. The male has a bright green patch and a small pale yellow subapical spot on the forewing. There is a red patch on the hindwing. The female has a small white patch on the trailing edge of the forewing and a few pale subapical spots. There is a band of red spots across the hindwing. The underside of the wings is also black. The male has small pale subapical spots on the forewing and a few red spots on the hindwing. The female's underside is the same as the upper side. [2]

Description from Seitz

P. childrenae. The green area of the male is larger than in P. sesostris , covering also a part of the cell. The female has a transverse row of spots before the apex of the forewing, as well as two spots on the disc posteriorly. Distributed from Guatemala to Ecuador in two subspecies. — childrenae ' Gray (3 a) is the Central American form, which is found from Guatemala to Panama. Forewing of the male with a white spot before the apex. Band on the hindwing of the female bright red. — oedippus Luc. has in the male no white spot before the apex of the forewing, or only a very small one. In the female the band on the hindwing is a somewhat yellowish red on the inner side. Colombia and Ecuador. [3]

Description from Rothschild and Jordan(1906)

A full description is provided by Rothschild, W. and Jordan, K. (1906) [4]

Taxonomy

Parides childrenae is a member of the sesostris species group [5]

The members are

Etymology

The name honours Mrs Children

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References

  1. Gray, R. G., 1832. In Griffith, E. The Animal Kingdom Arranged In Conformity With Its Organization, By The Baron Cuvier 14: 140 pls; 15: pp 1–796.
  2. 1 2 Jeffrey Glassberg (2007). A Swift Guide to the Butterflies of Mexico and Central America. Sunstreak Books Inc. ISBN   978-1-4243-0915-3
  3. 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 .
  4. Rothschild, W. and Jordan, K. (1906). A revision of the American Papilios. Novitates Zoologicae 13: 411-752. (Facsimile edition ed. P.H. Arnaud, 1967) and online
  5. Edwin Möhn, 2007 Butterflies of the World, Part 26: Papilionidae XIII. Parides Verlag Goecke & Evers Verlag Goecke & Evers ISBN   9783937783277