| Parides orellana | |
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| Parides orellana with other Parides in Adalbert Seitz's Macrolepidoptera of the World | |
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Papilionidae |
| Genus: | Parides |
| Species: | P. orellana |
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| Parides orellana | |
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Parides orellana is a species of butterfly in the family Papilionidae. It is found in the Neotropical realm. (Colombia, Ecuador, Venezuela, Peru, Brazil (Amazonas)).
The larvae possibly feed on Aristolochia barbata.
Description from Seitz
P. orellana Hew. (2 c). The most beautiful species of the aeneas-group. Forewing in both sexes black, bluish in a side-view, with white spots on the fringes. Hindwing in the male with a very large red area, not opalescent; in the female with a broad red band. — Upper Amazon, from Ega to Iquitos.[2]
Hewitson, W. C. (1852) Plate 5
Description from Rothschild and Jordan(1906)
A full description is provided by Rothschild, W. and Jordan, K. (1906)[3]
Taxonomy
Parides orellana is a member of the aeneas species group[4]
References
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- ↑ Hewitson, W. C. (1852) Descriptions of Five new Species of Butterflies, of the Family Papilionidae. The Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 2 (1): 22-24; pls. 5-6.
- ↑
Jordan, K. , in Seitz, A. ( 1907) . The Macrolepidoptera of the World. 5: The Macrolepidoptera of the American faunistic region. Papilionidae 1-45.
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 ISBN 9783937783277
- Collins, N. Mark; Morris, Michael G. (1985). Threatened Swallowtail Butterflies of the World: The IUCN Red Data Book. Gland & Cambridge: IUCN. ISBN 978-2-88032-603-6 – via Biodiversity Heritage Library.
- Lewis, H. L., 1974 Butterflies of the World ISBN 0-245-52097-X Page 26, figure 18
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