Parides

Short description: Genus of butterflies

Cattleheart butterflies

Parides aeneas
Scientific classification
Kingdom:  | Animalia
Phylum:  | Arthropoda
Class:  | Insecta
Order:  | Lepidoptera
Family:  | Papilionidae
Tribe:  | Troidini
Genus:  | Parides
Hübner, [1819]
Species

Numerous, see text

Synonyms

* Hectorides Hübner, 1821
* Endopogon Lacordaire, 1833
* Ascanides Geyer, 1837
* Blakea Grote, 1875

Parides, commonly called cattlehearts, is a genus of swallowtail butterflies in the family Papilionidae. They are found in the Americas (Neotropical realm).

## Species

Listed alphabetically within groups according to Möhn et al., with annotations according to Wilts et al. (2014):[1]

species group: ascanius (disputed: basal/plesiomorphic?)

* Parides agavus (Drury, 1782)
* Parides alopius (Godman & Salvin, [1890]) – white-dotted cattleheart
* Parides ascanius (Cramer, [1775]) – Fluminense swallowtail
* Parides bunichus (Hübner, [1821])
* Parides gundlachianus (C. & R. Felder, 1864) – Cuban cattleheart (anchises group?)
* Parides montezuma (Westwood, 1842) – Montezuma's cattleheart (possibly new panthonus group)
* Parides phalaecus (Hewitson, 1869)
* Parides photinus (Doubleday, 1844) – pink-spotted cattleheart (basal in anchises group?)
* Parides proneus (Hübner, [1831])

species group: klagesi (incertae sedis)

* Parides klagesi (Ehrmann, 1904)

species group: chabrias

* Parides chabrias (Hewitson, 1852)
* Parides hahneli (Staudinger, 1882) – Hahnel's Amazonian swallowtail
* Parides mithras (Grose-Smith, 1902)
* Parides pizarro (Staudinger, 1884) - formerly P. steinbachi (ascanius group/incertae sedis?)
* Parides quadratus (Staudinger, 1890)
* Parides vercingetorix (Oberthür, 1888) - formerly P. coelus (ascanius group/incertae sedis?)

species group: aeneas

* Parides aeneas (Linnaeus, 1758)
* Parides aglaope (Gray, [1853]) (ascanius group/incertae sedis?)
* Parides burchellanus (Westwood, 1872) (possibly new panthonus group)
* Parides echemon (Hübner, [1813])
* Parides eurimedes (Stoll, [1782]) – pink-checked cattleheart or mylotes cattleheart
* Parides lysander (Cramer, [1775]) – Lysander cattleheart (possibly basalmost living species of group)
* Parides neophilus (Geyer, 1837) – neophilus cattleheart
* Parides orellana (Hewitson, 1852) (tentatively placed here)
* Parides panthonus (Cramer, [1780]) – panthonus cattleheart (possibly new panthonus group)
* Parides tros (Fabricius, 1793)
* Parides zacynthus (Fabricius, 1793)

species group: sesostris (sister to aeneas and/or anchises group/s?)

* Parides childrenae (Gray, 1832) – green-celled cattleheart
* Parides sesostris (Cramer, [1779]) – emerald-patched cattleheart

species group: anchises

* Parides anchises (Linnaeus, 1758) – Anchises cattleheart
* Parides cutorina (Staudinger, 1898) (ascanius group/incertae sedis?)
* Parides erithalion (Boisduval, 1836) – variable cattleheart
* Parides iphidamas (Fabricius, 1793) – Transandean cattleheart
* Parides panares (Gray, [1853]) – wedge-spotted cattleheart
* Parides phosphorus (H.W. Bates, 1861) (ascanius group/incertae sedis?)
* Parides vertumnus (Cramer, [1779])

## References

1. ↑ Parides, funet.fi

* Gerardo Lamas (edited by) (2004). Atlas of Neotropical Lepidoptera. Checklist: Part4A. Hesperioidea-Papilionoidea. Scientific Publishers, Inc., Gainesville, FL. ISBN 0-945417-28-4
* Jeffrey Glassberg (2007). A Swift Guide to the Butterflies of Mexico and Central America. Sunstreak Books Inc. ISBN 978-1-4243-0915-3
* 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
* Edwin Möhn, 2006 Schmetterlinge der Erde, Butterflies of the world Part XXVI (26), Papilionidae XIII. Parides. Edited by Erich Bauer and Thomas Frankenbach Keltern: Goecke & Evers; Canterbury: Hillside Books. ISBN 978-3-937783-27-7 (Supplement 13 in English - by Racheli)
* 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).

## External links

* BOA Photographs of type specimens.
* Parides MNH
* Pteron

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