Parides tros

Parides tros
Mounted female specimen
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Papilionidae
Genus:	Parides
Species:	P. tros
Binomial name
Parides tros (Fabricius, 1793)
Synonyms
Papilio trosFabricius, 1793 Papilio dardanusFabricius, 1793 (preocc. Brown, 1776) Papilio opleusGodart, 1819

Parides tros is a species of butterfly in the family Papilionidae. It is found in the Neotropical realm where it is endemic to Brazil.

The larva feeds on Aristolochia species including A. rumicifolia , A. cynanchifolia (P. t. tros), A. triangularis (P. t. danunciae).

Subspecies

• Parides tros tros (Brazil: Espirito Santo, Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo) ^[1]
• Parides tros danunciaeMielke, Casagrande & Mielke, 2000 (Brazil: Paraná, Santa Catarina)

Description from Seitz

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

P. dardanus Fabr. (= tros Fabr. = opleus Godt) (2 c). Tailed. Forewing in the male with a green spot before the hindmargin; the red area of the hindwing not opalescent. Female with a white area on the forewing, with obsolete margins. — An exclusively Brazilian species, which hitherto is only known from the province of Rio de Janeiro. ^[2]

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  Seitz Plate 2

Description from Rothschild and Jordan(1906)

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

Taxonomy

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

The members are

• Parides aeneas
• Parides aglaope
• Parides burchellanus
• Parides echemon
• Parides eurimedes
• Parides lysander
• Parides neophilus
• Parides orellana
• Parides panthonus
• Parides tros
• Parides zacynthus

References

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