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

Data Deficient  (IUCN 2.3)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Insecta
Order:
Lepidoptera
Family:
Papilionidae
Genus:
Parides
Species:
P. vercingetorix
Binomial name
Parides vercingetorix
Synonyms
  • Papilio coelus Boisduval, 1836[1] (non Stoll, 1781: preoccupied)
  • Papilio vercingetorix Oberthür, 1888
  • Parides coelus (Boisduval, 1836, non Stoll, 1781: preoccupied)

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)[2]

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

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.[3]

Taxonomy

Parides vercingetorix is a member of the chabrias species group [4]

The members are

Status

A rare little known species.

Sources
  • Gimenez Dixon, M. (1996). "Parides coelus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 1996: e.T16241A5587778. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.1996.RLTS.T16241A5587778.en. Retrieved 21 December 2017.

References
  1. Boisduval, 1836 Histoire Naturelle des Insectes. Species Général des Lépidoptéres. Tome Premier
  2. 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
  3. 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.
  4. Edwin Möhn, 2007 Butterflies of the World, Part 26: Papilionidae XIII. Parides Verlag Goecke & Evers Verlag Goecke & Evers ISBN 9783937783277


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