Parides vertumnus

Parides vertumnus
Specimen in the collection of Muséum de Toulouse
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Papilionidae
Genus:	Parides
Species:	P. vertumnus
Binomial name
Parides vertumnus (Cramer, 1779)
Synonyms
Papilio vertumnus Cramer, [1779] Papilio phronius Lucas, 1852 Papilio cixius Gray, [1853] Papilio vertumnus ab. latoplaga Dufrane, 1930 Papilio vertumnus ab. rubropuncta Dufrane, 1930 Papilio vertumnus diceros f. regularis Rousseau-Decelle, 1943 Papilio cutora Gray, [1853] Papilio cutora C. & R. Felder, 1864 Papilio diceros Gray, [1853] Papilio idalion C. & R. Felder, 1865 Papilio vertumnus var. bogotanus C. & R. Felder, 1864 Papilio diceros ab. lineatransversa Krüger, 1933 Papilio vertumnus var. autumnus Staudinger, 1898 Papilio vertumnus yuracares Rothschild & Jordan, 1906 Papilio vertumnus f. nigripalpus Röber, 1929 Papilio vertumnus pseudobogotanus Krüger, 1926 Papilio vertumnus pyrophanus Zikán, 1937 Papilio vertumnus f. melanopterus Zikán, 1937 Papilio vertumnus vertumnalis Bryk, 1953 Papilio vertumnus astorius Zikán, 1940

Parides vertumnus is a species of butterfly in the family Papilionidae. It is found in the Neotropical ecozone.

The larvae feed on Aristolochia species including A. elegans, A. odoratissima and A. acutifolia.

Subspecies

• P. v. vertumnus Guianas, Surinam, French Guiana, eastern Venezuela ^[1]
• P. v. cutora (Gray, [1853]) Brazil (Amazonas, Pará)
• P. v. diceros (Gray, [1853]) Brazil (Pará)
• P. v. bogotanus (C. & R. Felder, 1864) Colombia, Ecuador, northeastern Peru

Etymology

It is named in the classical tradition. In Roman mythology, the god Vertumnus could change his form at will.

References

• 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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