Parides lysander

Lysander Cattleheart

Plate accompanying the original description in Cramer and Stoll's Uitlandsche Kapellen, P. lysander top left and bottom right
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Papilionidae
Genus:	Parides
Species:	P. lysander
Binomial name
*Parides lysander* (Cramer, 1775)
Synonyms
Papilio lysander Cramer, [1775] Papilio euristeus Cramer, 1775 Papilio arbates Stoll, [1782] Papilio meleander Jablonsky, 1784 Papilio eurymas Godart, 1819 Papilio anaximander C. & R. Felder, 1865 Papilio lysander var. bari Oberthür, 1879 Papilio horracki Lathy, 1916 Papilio citrulli Fabricius, 1938 Papilio scaevola Fabricius, 1938 Papilio parsodes Gray, [1853] Papilio sonoria Gray, [1853] Priamides brissonius Hübner, [1819] Papilio phrynichus C. & R. Felder, 1864 Papilio lysander f. stramineus Biedermann, 1938 Papilio lysander isanae Rousseau-Decelle, 1943 Papilio lysander f. extensa Rousseau-Decelle, 1943 Papilio lysander f. reducta Rousseau-Decelle, 1943 Papilio lysander mattogrossensis Talbot, 1928 Papilio lysander ab. antalcidas Krüger, 1933

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

The larvae feed on Aristolochia huberiana, Aristolochia sprucei, Aristolochia elegans, Aristolochia ruiziana, and Aristolochia leuconeura.

Top left is P. lysander

Subspecies

P. l. lysander Guianas
P. l. parsodes (Gray, [1853]) Brazil (Pará)
P. l. brissonius (Hübner, [1819]) Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, S.Peru, Brazil (Amazonas)
P. l. mattogrossensis (Talbot, 1928) Brazil (Mato Grosso)
P. l. antalcidas Tyler, Brown & Wilson, 1994 Brazil (Pará)
P. l. orinocoensis Constantino, Le Crom & Salazar, 2002 Colombia

References

Collins, N.M., Morris, M.G., IUCN, 1985 Threatened Swallowtail Butterflies of the World: the IUCN Red Data Book 1985 IUCN pdf
Lewis, H. L., 1974 Butterflies of the World ISBN 0-245-52097-X Page 26, figure 14
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)

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