Parides zacynthus

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Parides zacynthus
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Papilionidae
Genus: Parides
Species:
P. zacynthus
Binomial name
Parides zacynthus
(Fabricius, 1793) [1]
Synonyms
  • Papilio zacynthusFabricius, 1793
  • Papilio dimasFabricius, 1793
  • Papilio polymetusGodart, 1819
  • Papilio orsillusGray, [1853]

Parides zacynthus is a species of butterfly in the family Papilionidae. It is found in the Neotropical realm where it is endemic to Eastern Brazil. [2]

Contents

The larvae feed on Aristolochia species (including Aristolochia macroura, Aristolochia odora and Aristolochia ruminifolia).

Subspecies

Description from Seitz

P. zacynthus. Band on the forewing in the male greenish blue. The spots on the under surface of the hindwing of the female paler than in P. neophilus . Brazil, from Rio de Janeiro northwards, in two geographical forms. Not rare in damp localities overgrown with bushes. The larva is grey-brown, with a yellow lateral stripe. — The form from the province of Rio de Janeiro, zacynthus F. (5b), occurs in the neighbourhood of the town of Rio, but is much rarer than P. nephalion . The forewing is not transparent at the apex; the female has a spot in the cell of the forewing. — The northern form, from Pernambuco, Bahia and Rio Tapajos, is polymetus Godt. (5 b). The forewing is transparent at the apex and the female has no spot in the cell, or only a very small one. [4]

Description from Rothschild and Jordan(1906)

A full description is provided by Rothschild, W. and Jordan, K. (1906) [5]

Taxonomy

Parides zacynthus is a member of the aeneas species group. [6]

The members are

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References

  1. ↑ Fabricius, J.C. 1793. Entomologia systematica emendata et aucta: Secundun classes, ordines, genera, species, adjectis synonimis, locis, observationibus, descriptionibus. Christ. Gottl. Proft, Hafniae
  2. ↑ 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.
  3. ↑ Lewis, H. L., 1974 Butterflies of the World ISBN   0-245-52097-X Page 26, figure 28
  4. ↑ 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 .
  5. ↑ 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
  6. ↑ Edwin Möhn, 2007 Butterflies of the World, Part 26: Papilionidae XIII. Parides Verlag Goecke & Evers Verlag Goecke & Evers ISBN   9783937783277


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