Parides anchises

Anchises Cattleheart
Parides anchises anchises - Muséum de Toulouse
Parides anchises anchises - △ Muséum de Toulouse
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Papilionidae
Tribe:	Troidini
Genus:	Parides
Species:	P. anchises
Binomial name
Parides anchises (Linnaeus, 1758)
Synonyms
Papilio anchises Linnaeus, 1758 Papilio telmosis H. W. Bates, 1861 Papilio eteocles C. Felder & R. Felder, 1865 Papilio citri Fabricius, 1938 (repl. name)

Parides anchises is a species of butterfly in the family Papilionidae native to the Americas. It is commonly known as the Anchises Cattleheart.^[1] It is common and not threatened.^[2] The larvae feed on Aristolochia - A. brazilsis, A. bukuti, A. colombiana, A. cymbifera, A. fimbriata, A. inflata, A. macroura, A. odora, A. ringens, and A. triangularis.^[3]

Subspecies

P. a. nephalion

Plate depicting several subspecies

• Parides anchises anchises (Linnaeus, 1758) (Guyana to French Guiana)^[3]
• Parides anchises alyattes (C. Felder & R. Felder, 1861) (central Colombia)^[3]
• Parides anchises bukuti Brévignon, 1998 (French Guiana)^[3]
• Parides anchises cymochles (Doubleday, 1844) (Trinidad and eastern Venezuela)^[3]
• Parides anchises drucei (Butler, 1874) (Colombia to northern Bolivia)^[3]
• Parides anchises etias (Rothchild & Jordan, 1906) (northern Bolivia)^[3]
• Parides anchises farfan K. S. Brown, 1994 (Panama)^[3]
• Parides anchises foetterlei (Rothchild & Jordan, 1906) (central to southern Brazil)^[3]
• Parides anchises humaita D'Abrera, 1981 (northwestern Brazil)^[3]
• Parides anchises koenigi T. Racheli, 1989 (Peru)^[3]
• Parides anchises marinae T. Racheli, 1987 (Peru)^[3]
• Parides anchises marthilia R. G. Maza, 1999 (southern Mexico)^[3]
• Parides anchises nephalion (Godart, 1819) (eastern Brazil to Paraguay and northern Argentina)^[3][4]

• Parides anchises nielseni Bollino & Salazar, 2001 (Colombia)^[3]
• Parides anchises orbignyanus (Lucas, 1852) (central Brazil to Paraguay)^[3]
• Parides anchises orinocensis (Rousseau-Decelle, 1960) (northeastern Venezuela)^[3]
• Parides anchises osyris (C. Felder & R. Felder, 1861) (Venezuela)^[3]
• Parides anchises serapis (Boisduval, 1836) (northern Colombia to Venezuela)^[3]
• Parides anchises stilbon (Kollar, 1839) (southern Brazil)^[3]
• Parides anchises thelios (Gray, [1853]) (northern Brazil)^[3]

References

1. Warren, A. D.; et al. (2010). "Parides anchises". Butterflies of America. Retrieved 22 January 2011.
2. Collins, N. Mark; Collins, Michael G. (1985). Threatened Swallowtails of the World: The IUCN Red Data Book. IUCN Protected Area Programme Series. Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, U.K.: IUCN. p. 70. ISBN 978-2-88032-603-6.
3. Savela, Markku. "Parides anchises". funet.fi. Retrieved 22 January 2011.
4. Lewis, H. L., 1974 Butterflies of the World ISBN 0-245-52097-X Page 26, figure 17, female

• Lewis, H. L., 1974 Butterflies of the World ISBN 0-245-52097-X Page 25, figure 20

Further reading

• Lamas, Gerardo (2004). Atlas of Neotropical Lepidoptera; Checklist: Part4A Hesperioidea–Papilionoidea. Gainesville, Florida: Scientific Publishers, Inc. p. 91. ISBN 0-945417-28-4.