Parides Echemon

''Parides echemon'' is a species of butterfly in the family Papilionidae. It is found in the Neotropical realm.

It is common and not threatened.

Subspecies

*''P. e. echemon'' Brazil (Pará)
*''P. e. ergeteles'' (Gray, 853 Guianas, French Guiana, Surinam, Brazil (Pará)
*''P. e. empistocles'' Küppers, 1975 southeastern Peru
*''P. e. pisander'' (C. & R. Felder, 1865) French Guiana

Description from Seitz

P. echemon resembles the preceding species lysander''] ; but the forewing is narrower, the outer margin being incurved in the male, straight in the female, the cell of the forewing is narrower at its extremity, the 3. radial of the hindwing is usually much nearer to the 2. radial than to the 1. median, and the fold of the hindwing in the male has no white wool. On the Lower and Middle Amazon and in the Guianas. Two subspecies. — Hubner's figures agree with the form from the Amazon: in the male ''echemon'' Hbn. (= ''echelus'' Hbn.) the blue-green band of the forewing is narrow and placed, like the white band of the female, separate from the cell. From Para to Santarem. — ''ergeteles'' Gray (= ''echephron'' Bates, ''echion'' Bates, ''polyphron'' Fldr.) has in the male a broader blue-green band, and in the female the white spot before the 2. median is contiguous to the cell, or the forewing is without spots.- female f. ''ergeteles'' Gray is the form of the female with a white area; in the female-f. ''pisander'' Fldr. the white spots are only indicated by a few white scales. From Obidos to the Rio Negro, north side of the Amazon; Guiana. — Whilst ''P. lysander'' is a swamp species and flies heavily over the wettest places in the shade of the woods, ''P. echemon'' prefers drier localities in the woods, and is often found on the flowers which hang down from the trees over the narrow paths in the forests.

File:Gray1853CatLepInsCollBritMusPapilionidaePlate11.jpg, in Gray 1853 (figure 1)

Description from Rothschild and Jordan (1906)

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

Taxonomy

''Parides echemon'' is a member of the ''aeneas'' species groupEdwin Möhn, 2007 ''Butterflies of the World'', Part 26: Papilionidae XIII. ''Parides'' Verlag Goecke & Evers Verlag Goecke & Evers

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

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Butterflies described in 1813
Parides
Papilionidae of South America
Taxa named by Jacob Hübner