Parides burchellanus
| Parides burchellanus | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Papilionidae |
| Tribe: | Troidini |
| Genus: | Parides |
| Species: | P. burchellanus |
| Binomial name | |
| Parides burchellanus (Westwood, 1872) | |
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Parides panthonus jaguarae (Foetterle, 1902: male) | |
Parides burchellanus is a species of swallowtail butterfly (family Papilionidae). It is endemic to Brazil.
Description
Parides burchellanus is a large, velvet-black butterfly. The forewing is unmarked except for small, white marginal spots. The underside of the hindwing has small, red postdiscal spots. These are smaller and paler on the lower surface. The hindwing has a scalloped outer margin and a large androconial hair-pouch on the anal margin of the male. There are no tails. Apart from the hair-pouch, the sexes are alike.
Biology
The food plants of the larva are Aristolochia chamissonia and A. melastoma.
Taxonomy
Parides burchellanus is a member of the Parides aeneas species group and may be conspecific with, Parides aeneas. A suggested intermediate is known.
Habitat and threats
P. burchellanus is a rare species or, if it is a subspecies, an evolutionarily significant unit, of butterfly (Lepidoptera, Papilionoidea) that lives in a very few areas in central Brazil. Its close relation with a highly peculiar environment (gallery or riparian forest along rivers running through the cerrado landscape) restricts its occurrence to a few points. The frailty of its habitat, towards the increasing of loss of natural environments, makes it a target prone to elimination.
References
- Gimenez Dixon, M. 1996. Parides burchellanus. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 31 July 2007.
- 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.
- 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)
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