Parides vercingetorix
Parides vercingetorix is a species of butterfly in the family Papilionidae. It is endemic to French Guiana. Formerly, this species was known as Parides coelus and originally described as Papilio coelus by Jean Baptiste Boisduval in 1836, but that name was already used in 1781 by Stoll for the butterfly now known as Aguna coelus. Consequently, the Parides species had to receive a new name.
| Parides vercingetorix | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Papilionidae |
| Genus: | Parides |
| Species: | P. vercingetorix |
| Binomial name | |
| Parides vercingetorix (Oberthür, 1888) | |
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Description
Forewing with a white spot, obsolete at the margins, which fills up the extremity of the cell, and extends on to the disc. Hindwing with red band on the disc, in the male composed of four spots, in the female of six. A full description is provided by Rothschild, W. and Jordan, K. (1906)[3]
Description from Seitz
P. coelus Boisd. (male = vercingetorix Oberth.) (Id). Forewing with a white spot, obsolete at the margins, which fills up the extremity of the cell, and extends on to the disc. Hindwing with red band on the disc, in the male composed of four spots, in the female of six. — French Guiana, the male in Oberthur's Collection, one female in the Paris Museum.[4]
Status
A rare little known species.
References
- Grice, H.; Böhm, M. (2018). "Parides vercingetorix". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2018: e.T122550460A122603481. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2018-2.RLTS.T122550460A122603481.en. Retrieved 15 November 2021.
- Boisduval, 1836 Histoire Naturelle des Insectes. Species Général des Lépidoptéres. Tome Premier
- 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
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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. - Edwin Möhn, 2007 Butterflies of the World, Part 26: Papilionidae XIII. Parides Verlag Goecke & Evers Verlag Goecke & Evers ISBN 9783937783277
- Lewis, H. L., 1974 Butterflies of the World ISBN 0-245-52097-X Page 26, figure 6, female
- 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.
