Parides orellana
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| Parides orellana with other Parides in Adalbert Seitz's Macrolepidoptera of the World | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia
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| Phylum: | Arthropoda
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| Class: | Insecta
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| Family: | Papilionidae
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| Species: | P. 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 .
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[]
- ^ 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.
- ^ Seitz, A. ed. Band 1: Abt. 1, Die Großschmetterlinge des palaearktischen Faunengebietes, Die palaearktischen Tagfalter, 1909, 379 Seiten, mit 89 kolorierten Tafeln (3470 Figuren)
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
This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the - 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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Categories:
- Butterflies described in 1852
- Parides
- Papilionidae of South America