Parides panthonus
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Female.JPG)
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Male.JPG)
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Papilionidae |
| Genus: | Parides |
| Species: | P. panthonus
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Parides panthonus, the panthonus cattleheart, is a butterfly of the family Papilionidae. It is found in the Guianas and Suriname.[2]
Subspecies
[edit]- P. p. panthonus (Suriname, the Guianas)
- P. p. barbotini Brévignon, 1998 (eastern French Guiana)
- P. p. phylarchus (Hopffer, 1865) (French Guiana)
Description from Seitz
[edit][Red instead of white marginal spots. The hind tibiae of the males are always dilated and with fine hairs.The red spots on the hindwing have no opalescent gloss] P. panthonus. Forewing in both sexes black, with reddish marginal spots; hindwing with a regularly curved row of separated red spots. Scent-wool white. Guiana and [following text refers to Parides burchellanus (Westwood, 1872) Brazil, in two subspecies. —numa Boisd. (= jaguarae Foett), from Brazil (São Paulo and Minas Geraes), has small, widely separated spots. — In panthonus Cr. (3 b, 5 a), from the three Guianas, the spots on the hindwing are somewhat larger. This form most probably occurs also on the north side of the Lower Amazon] [3]
Description from Rothschild and Jordan(1906)
[edit]A full description is provided by Rothschild, W. and Jordan, K. (1906)[4] Note Papilio numa Boisduval, 1836 is Parides burchellanus jaguarae (Foetterle, 1902)
Taxonomy
[edit]Parides panthonus is a member of the aeneas species group[5]
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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- ^ Parides at funet
- ^ 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.
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Jordan, K., in Seitz, A. ( 1907) . The Macrolepidoptera of the World. 5: The Macrolepidoptera of the American faunistic region. Papilionidae 1-45.
This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
- ^ 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
- ^ Edwin Möhn, 2007 Butterflies of the World, Part 26: Papilionidae XIII. Parides Verlag Goecke & Evers Verlag Goecke & Evers ISBN 9783937783277
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