''Parides phosphorus '' 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 ...

. It is found in the

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. The larvae feed on ''

Aristolochia ''Aristolochia'' () is a large plant genus with over 500 species that is the type genus of the family Aristolochiaceae. Its members are commonly known as birthwort, pipevine or Dutchman's pipe and are widespread and occur in the most diverse clima ...

''.

Subspecies

*''P. p. phosphorus'' Guianas, eastern Venezuela, Brazil (Pará) *''P. p. gratianus'' (Hewitson, 1861) Colombia *''P. p. vavi'' Racheli, 1992 *''P. p. zopyron'' Lamas, 1998 northern Peru *''P. p. laurae'' Bollino & Costa, 2004 southeastern Venezuela

Description from Seitz

P. phosphorus. Palpi red. Forewing somewhat transparent distally; male with dirty-green spot; hindwing rather strongly dentate, the red spots remote from the cell. Tibiae armed with spines, not thickened. Female with grey-green area on the forewing before the hindmargin, which occurs in no other female of the Aristolochia- Papilios. Colombia; Guiana; Lower Amazon; East Peru; perhaps more widely distributed. A rare insect; probably a swamp species which escapes observation. Two subspecies: — ''phosphorus'' Bates (3c) occurs in British Guiana and at the Lower Amazon. The green spot on the forewing of the male is narrow and separated from the cell. The forewing of the female has a row of 4 white spots on the grey-green area (always?). — ''gratianus'' Hew. (3 c) inhabits Colombia and East Peru. The green spot on the forewing of the male is much broader than in the preceding form; hindwing with only 3, or rarely 4, red spots, the series not curved. Forewing of the female with two white spots; the posterior spots of the hindwing large File:Macrolepidoptera15seit 0015.jpg, ''P. phosphorus phosphorus'' in Seitz

Description from Rothschild and Jordan(1906)

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

Taxonomy

''Parides phosphorus'' is a member of the ''anchises'' species groupEdwin Möhn, 2007 ''Butterflies of the World'', Part 26: Papilionidae XIII. ''Parides'' Verlag Goecke & Evers Verlag Goecke & Evers The members are *'' Parides anchises'' *''

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References

* *Lewis, H. L., 1974 ''Butterflies of the World'' Page 26, figure 20 *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. (Supplement 13 in English - by Racheli) {{Taxonbar, from=Q3365080 Butterflies described in 1861 Parides Papilionidae of South America Taxa named by Henry Walter Bates