Parides phosphorus
| Parides phosphorus | |
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| Subspecies P. p. gratianus, figure 13 | |
| Scientific classification Edit this classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Papilionidae |
| Genus: | Parides |
| Species: | P. phosphorus
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| Binomial name | |
| Parides phosphorus (H.W. Bates, 1861)
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Parides phosphorus is a species of butterfly in the family Papilionidae. It is found in the Neotropical realm.
The larvae feed on Aristolochia.
Subspecies
[edit | edit source]- 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
[edit | edit source]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[1]
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P. phosphorus phosphorus in Seitz
Description from Rothschild and Jordan(1906)
[edit | edit source]A full description is provided by Rothschild, W. and Jordan, K. (1906)[2]
Taxonomy
[edit | edit source]Parides phosphorus is a member of the anchises species group[3]
The members are
- Parides anchises
- Parides cutorina
- Parides erithalion
- Parides iphidamas
- Parides panares
- Parides phosphorus
- Parides vertumnus
Other species in the anchises group were often incorrectly cited as Papilio phosphorus by earlier authors, and various subspecies (e.g., P. p. gratianus) were often confused with each other or other species.
References
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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. Public Domain 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 Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
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- 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. Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value). (Supplement 13 in English - by Racheli)
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