Parides cutorina

Parides cutorina is a species of butterfly in the family Papilionidae. It is found in the Neotropical realm (Ecuador, Peru, and Brazil: Pará and Amazonas). It is an uncommon local species which may be threatened.[1]

Parides cutorina
Parides cutorina and related species
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Papilionidae
Genus: Parides
Species:
P. cutorina
Binomial name
Parides cutorina
(Staudinger, 1898)
Synonyms
  • Papilio cutorina Staudinger, 1898
  • Papilio cutorina f. dilutus Joicey & Talbot, 1922
  • Papilio mazeppa Grose-Smith, 1899

The larvae feed on Aristolochia.

Description from Seitz
For a key to the terms used, see Glossary of entomology terms.

P. cutorina Stgr. (female = mazeppa Grose-Smith) (3 c). Palpi red. Forewing of the male with a green spot; in the female without spot, the fringes spotted with white. Hindwing in the male with two contiguous red spots on the upper surface, the spots on the under surface yellowish white; in the female the wing has a yellowish white band on both surfaces; 2. and 3. radials close together, the transverse vein between them not oblique. — Upper Amazon and slopes of the Andes of Ecuador and Peru.[2]

Description from Rothschild and Jordan(1906)

A full description is provided by Rothschild, W. and Jordan, K. (1906)[3]

Taxonomy

Parides cutorina is a member of the anchises species group[4]

The members are

References
  1. 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.
  2. Jordan, K. , in Seitz, A. ( 1907) . The Macrolepidoptera of the World. 5: The Macrolepidoptera of the American faunistic region. Papilionidae 1-45. Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
  3. 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
  4. Edwin Möhn, 2007 Butterflies of the World, Part 26: Papilionidae XIII. Parides Verlag Goecke & Evers Verlag Goecke & Evers ISBN 9783937783277
  • 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)
  • Lewis, H. L., 1974 Butterflies of the World ISBN 0-245-52097-X Page 26, figure 7, female.
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