Parides sesostris

Emerald-patched Cattleheart
Parides sesostris - Muséum de Toulouse
Parides sesostris △ - Muséum de Toulouse
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Papilionidae
Tribe:	Troidini
Genus:	Parides
Species:	P. sesostris
Binomial name
Parides sesostris (Cramer, 1779)
Synonyms
Papilio sesostris Cramer, 1779 Papilio tullus Cramer, 1780 Papilio lycomes Gray [1853] Papilio sesostrellana Kotzsch, 1934 Papilio sesostris ab. pseudozestos (R. Krüger, 1934)

Parides sesostris is a species of butterfly in the family Papilionidae. It is commonly known as the Emerald-patched Cattleheart and the Southern Cattleheart.^[1][2]

Subspecies

• Parides sesostris sesostris (Cramer, 1779) (Suriname to eastern Ecuador and south to northern Peru and Brazil)^[3][4]
• Parides sesostris tarquinius (Boisduval, 1836) (Panama to western Ecuador and western Venezuela)^[3]
• Parides sesostris trinitensis K. S. Brown, 1994 (Trinidad)^[3]
• Parides sesostris zestos (Gray [1853]) (southeastern Mexico to Costa Rica, excluding El Salvador)^[1][2][3]
• Parides sesostris zischkai (Forster, 1955) (Bolivia)^[3]

Description

Male of Parides sesostris zestos - Museo di Scienze Naturali Enrico Caffi

Parides sesostris has a wingspan reaching 100–110 millimetres (3.9–4.3 in). The head, the thorax and the abdomen are black. The basic colour of the upperside of the forewings is black, with large green areas on the basal portion of the forewings. The underside of the forewings is dark-brown. The underside of the hind wings is dark-brown, with chain of red spots on the outer edge.The hind wings are scalloped but they have no tails. The larvae feed on Aristolochia barbata, A. bicolor, A. grandiflora, A. sprucei, and A. trianae.^[3] It is not threatened.^[2]

Distribution

This species is native to the Americas. It is widespread from Mexico until Brazil and Peru.

References

1. Warren, A. D.; et al. (2010). "Parides sesostris". Butterflies of America. Retrieved 19 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. 69. ISBN 978-2-88032-603-6.
3. Savela, Markku. "Parides sesostris". funet.fi. Retrieved 19 January 2011.
4. Lewis, H. L., 1974 Butterflies of the World ISBN 0-245-52097-X Page 26, figure 23, female

Further reading

• Lamas, Gerardo (2004). Atlas of Neotropical Lepidoptera; Checklist: Part4A Hesperioidea–Papilionoidea. Gainesville, Florida: Scientific Publishers, Inc. pp. 92–93. ISBN 0-945417-28-4.

External links

• Butterfly Corner