Parides echemon

Parides echemon

Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Papilionidae
Genus:	Parides
Species:	P. echemon
Binomial name
*Parides echemon* (Hübner, [1813])
Synonyms
Princeps echemon Hübner, [1813] Princeps echelus Hübner, [1815] Papilio spartacus Doubleday, 1846 Papilio echelus var. spartacus Gray, [1853] Papilio ergeteles Gray, [1853] Papilio echelus var. echephron Bates, 1861 Papilio polyphron C. & R. Felder, 1865 Papilio echion C. & R. Felder, 1865 Papilio pisander C. & R. Felder, 1865

Parides echemon is a species of butterfly in the family Papilionidae. It is found in the Neotropical ecozone.

It is common and not threatened.

Subspecies

P. e. echemon Brazil(Pará)
P. e. ergeteles (Gray, [1853]) Guianas, French Guiana, Surinam, Brazil(Pará)
P. e. empistocles Küppers, 1975 SE.Peru
P. e. pisander (C. & R. Felder, 1865) French Guiana

References

Collins, N.M., Morris, M.G., IUCN, 1985 Threatened Swallowtail Butterflies of the World: the IUCN Red Data Book 1985 IUCN pdf
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. ISBN 978-3-937783-27-7 (Supplement 13 in English - by Racheli)

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Parides echemon.

This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the Sunday, October 25, 2015. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.