Parides lysander
Species of butterfly
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Parides lysander, the Lysander cattleheart, is a species of butterfly in the family Papilionidae. It is found in the Neotropical realm.
| Lysander cattleheart | |
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| 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) | |
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The larvae feed on Aristolochia species including A. huberiana, A. sprucei, A. littoralis, A. ruiziana, and A. leuconeura.
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
Description from Seitz
P. lysander Cr. (= phrynichus Fldr.). Male with white scent-wool in the fold of the hindwing. Outer margin of the forewing in the female rounded; the last two red spots on the hindwing separated, standing obliquely one under the other; female-f. parsodes Gray (= sonoria Gray) has a large white area on the forewing, composed of several spots: in the female -f. arbates Stoll (= anaximenes Fldr.) the forewing has only one white spot; whilst in the female-f. brissonius Gray (5b) the forewing has no white spot at all. A male with yellow instead of red spots on the forewing has been described as ab. bari Oberth. — This species is known from the whole of the Amazon, East Peru and East Ecuador, as well as from the Guianas and Bogota; it has not hitherto been found in Bolivia nor in Brazil proper. It is a swamp species and flies heavily over the wettest places in the shade of the woods.[1]
Description from Rothschild and Jordan (1906)
A full description is provided by Rothschild, W. and Jordan, K. (1906)[2]
Taxonomy
Parides lysander is a member of the aeneas species group:[3]
The members are
- Parides aeneas
- Parides aglaope
- Parides burchellanus
- Parides echemon
- Parides eurimedes – mylotes cattleheart, Arcas cattleheart, pink-checked cattleheart, or true cattleheart
- Parides lysander
- Parides neophilus – spear-winged cattleheart
- Parides orellana
- Parides panthonus – panthonus cattleheart
- Parides tros
- Parides zacynthus
