Parides orellana

Parides orellana
Parides orellana with other Parides in Adalbert Seitz's Macrolepidoptera of the World
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Papilionidae
Genus:	Parides
Species:	P. orellana
Binomial name
Parides orellana (Hewitson, 1852) [1]
Synonyms
Papilio orellanaHewitson, 1852

Parides orellana is a species of butterfly in the family Papilionidae. It is found in the Neotropical realm. (Colombia, Ecuador, Venezuela, Peru, Brazil (Amazonas)).

The larvae possibly feed on Aristolochia barbata .

Description from Seitz

For a key to the terms used, see Glossary of entomology terms.

P. orellana Hew. (2 c). The most beautiful species of the aeneas-group. Forewing in both sexes black, bluish in a side-view, with white spots on the fringes. Hindwing in the male with a very large red area, not opalescent; in the female with a broad red band. — Upper Amazon, from Ega to Iquitos. ^[2]

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  Hewitson, W. C. (1852) Plate 5

Description from Rothschild and Jordan(1906)

A full description is provided by Rothschild, W. and Jordan, K. (1906) ^[3]

Taxonomy

Parides orellana is a member of the aeneas species group ^[4]

References

1. Hewitson, W. C. (1852) Descriptions of Five new Species of Butterflies, of the Family Papilionidae. The Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 2 (1): 22-24; pls. 5-6.
2. Jordan, K., in Seitz, A. ( 1907) . The Macrolepidoptera of the World. 5: The Macrolepidoptera of the American faunistic region. Papilionidae 1-45. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain .
3. 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
4. Edwin Möhn, 2007 Butterflies of the World, Part 26: Papilionidae XIII. Parides Verlag Goecke & Evers Verlag Goecke & Evers ISBN   9783937783277

• 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.
• Lewis, H. L., 1974 Butterflies of the World ISBN   0-245-52097-X Page 26, figure 18