''Parides panares'', the wedge-spotted cattleheart,
is a species of
butterfly
Butterflies are insects in the macrolepidopteran clade Rhopalocera from the Order (biology), order Lepidoptera, which also includes moths. Adult butterflies have large, often brightly coloured wings, and conspicuous, fluttering flight. The ...
in the family
Papilionidae
Swallowtail butterflies are large, colorful butterflies in the family Papilionidae, and include over 550 species. Though the majority are tropical, members of the family inhabit every continent except Antarctica. The family includes the larges ...
native to the
Americas
The Americas, which are sometimes collectively called America, are a landmass comprising the totality of North and South America. The Americas make up most of the land in Earth's Western Hemisphere and comprise the New World.
Along with th ...
. The larvae feed on ''
Aristolochia maxima'' and ''
A. pilosa''.
Subspecies
* ''P. p. panares''
(Gray, 853
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Events
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(southeastern
Mexico
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)
[
* ''P. p. erythrus'' (Rothchild & Jordan, 1906) (]Panama
Panama ( , ; es, link=no, Panamá ), officially the Republic of Panama ( es, República de Panamá), is a transcontinental country spanning the southern part of North America and the northern part of South America. It is bordered by Cos ...
to Colombia
Colombia (, ; ), officially the Republic of Colombia, is a country in South America with insular regions in North America—near Nicaragua's Caribbean coast—as well as in the Pacific Ocean. The Colombian mainland is bordered by the Car ...
)[
* ''P. p. lycimenes'' (Boisduval, 1836) (southeastern Mexico to Panama)][
* ''P. p. paralius'' (Rothchild & Jordan, 1906) (]Ecuador
Ecuador ( ; ; Quechua: ''Ikwayur''; Shuar: ''Ecuador'' or ''Ekuatur''), officially the Republic of Ecuador ( es, República del Ecuador, which literally translates as "Republic of the Equator"; Quechua: ''Ikwadur Ripuwlika''; Shuar: ''Eku ...
)[
* ''P. p. rachelii'' K. S. Brown, 1994 (northern ]Venezuela
Venezuela (; ), officially the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela ( es, link=no, República Bolivariana de Venezuela), is a country on the northern coast of South America, consisting of a continental landmass and many islands and islets in th ...
)[
* ''P. p. tachira'' T. Racheli, 1991 (southwestern Venezuela)][
]
Description from Seitz
'panares panares'' = ''iphidamas'' in Seitz (misident.) Mexico
P. lycimenes. Male : somewhat smaller than '' P. vertumnus'', the red area of the hindwing less triangular and its last spot smaller. Female: forewing slightly transparent at the apex; the spots somewhat yellowish, not pure white, the cell-spot usually large and extended across the cell; band of the hindwing less bright red than in ''P. vertumnus''. Tibiae of the male not thickened. Guatemala to Ecuador, in several subspecies. — ''lycimenes'' Boisd. is the Central American form. Forewing with a large green spot, which almost always encloses at least one white spot; often a spot in the cell; hindwing with 4—6 red spots. In the female the yellowish white spot before the 1.median much larger than the preceding one; band of the hindwing broad, almost always a uniform bright red. Guatemala to Panama; also on the small islands on the west coast of the Republic of Panama. — ''erythrus'' R. & J. (3d), male : the green spot broader than in the preceding form, reaching to the hindmargin of the wing. Female: the spot before the 1.median of the forewing larger than in the preceding form; the band of the hindwing paler. Central and East Colombia and North Venezuela. — ''paralius'' R. & .J. (4a). Small, male : forewing with round yellow-white spot before the 2. median; band of the hindwing short and narrow. Female: spot on the forewing purer white than in the previous subspecies, the cell-spot reduced; the spot before the 2. median the largest; band of the hindwing almost straight. West Ecuador.
File:Macrolepidoptera15seit 0015.jpg, Seitz Plate 3
File:Macrolepidoptera15seit 0017.jpg, Seitz Plate 4
Description from Rothschild and Jordan(1906)
A full description is provided by Rothschild, W. and Jordan, K. (1906) See note on synonymy under Seitz (above).
Taxonomy
''Parides panares'' is a member of the ''anchises'' species group[Edwin Möhn, 2007 ''Butterflies of the World'', Part 26: Papilionidae XIII. ''Parides'' Verlag Goecke & Evers Verlag Goecke & Evers
]
The members are
*'' Parides anchises''
*''Parides cutorina
''Parides cutorina '' is a species of butterfly in the family Papilionidae. It is found in the Neotropical realm (Ecuador, Peru, and Brazil: Pará and Amazonas). It is an uncommon local species which may be threatened.
The larvae feed on ''Arist ...
''
*''Parides erithalion
''Parides erithalion'', the variable cattleheart, is a North and South American butterfly in the family Papilionidae. The species was first described by Jean Baptiste Boisduval in 1836.Glassberg, Jeffrey (2007). ''A Swift Guide to the Butterfli ...
''
*'' Parides iphidamas''
*''Parides panares''
*''Parides phosphorus
''Parides phosphorus '' is a species of butterfly in the family Papilionidae. It is found in the Neotropical realm.
The larvae feed on ''Aristolochia''.
Subspecies
*''P. p. phosphorus'' Guianas, eastern Venezuela, Brazil (Pará)
*''P. p. gratia ...
''
*''Parides vertumnus
''Parides vertumnus '' is a species of butterfly in the family Papilionidae. It is found in the Neotropical realm.
The larvae feed on ''Aristolochia'' species including '' A. elegans'', '' A. odoratissima'' and '' A. acutifolia''.
Subspecies
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References
Further reading
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panares Panares ( grc, Πανάρης) was a Greek general (''strategos'') of the ancient Cretan city of Kydonia in 69 BC at the time when the Romans attacked the city. Kydonia had aligned itself with the interests of pirates and incurred the anger of the R ...
Butterflies of Central America
Butterflies of North America
Papilionidae of South America
Taxa named by George Robert Gray
Butterflies described in 1853
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