Parides
# Parides

Parides, commonly called cattlehearts, is a genus of swallowtail butterflies in the family Papilionidae. They are found in the Americas (Neotropical realm).

## Species

Listed alphabetically within groups according to Möhn et al., with annotations according to Wilts et al. (2014):

species group: ascanius (disputed: basal/plesiomorphic?)

   * Parides agavus (Drury, 1782)

   * Parides alopius (Godman & Salvin, [1890]) – white-dotted cattleheart

   * Parides ascanius (Cramer, [1775]) – Fluminense swallowtail

   * Parides bunichus (Hübner, [1821])

   * Parides gundlachianus (C. & R. Felder, 1864) – Cuban cattleheart (anchises group?)

   * Parides montezuma (Westwood, 1842) – Montezuma's cattleheart (possibly new panthonus group)

   * Parides phalaecus (Hewitson, 1869)

   * Parides photinus (Doubleday, 1844) – pink-spotted cattleheart (basal in anchises group?)

   * Parides proneus (Hübner, [1831])

species group: klagesi (incertae sedis)

   * Parides klagesi (Ehrmann, 1904)

species group: chabrias

   * Parides chabrias (Hewitson, 1852)

   * Parides hahneli (Staudinger, 1882) – Hahnel's Amazonian swallowtail

   * Parides mithras (Grose-Smith, 1902)

   * Parides pizarro (Staudinger, 1884) – formerly P. steinbachi (ascanius group/incertae sedis?)

   * Parides quadratus (Staudinger, 1890)

   * Parides vercingetorix (Oberthür, 1888) – formerly P. coelus (ascanius group/incertae sedis?)

species group: aeneas

   * Parides aeneas (Linnaeus, 1758)

   * Parides aglaope (Gray, [1853]) (ascanius group/incertae sedis?)

   * Parides burchellanus (Westwood, 1872) (possibly new panthonus group)

   * Parides echemon (Hübner, [1813])

   * Parides eurimedes (Stoll, [1782]) – pink-checked cattleheart or mylotes cattleheart

   * Parides lysander (Cramer, [1775]) – Lysander cattleheart (possibly basalmost living species of group)

   * Parides neophilus (Geyer, 1837) – neophilus cattleheart

   * Parides orellana (Hewitson, 1852) (tentatively placed here)

   * Parides panthonus (Cramer, [1780]) – panthonus cattleheart (possibly new panthonus group)

   * Parides tros (Fabricius, 1793)

   * Parides zacynthus (Fabricius, 1793)

species group: sesostris (sister to aeneas and/or anchises group/s?)

   * Parides childrenae (Gray, 1832) – green-celled cattleheart

   * Parides sesostris (Cramer, [1779]) – emerald-patched cattleheart

species group: anchises

   * Parides anchises (Linnaeus, 1758) – Anchises cattleheart

   * Parides cutorina (Staudinger, 1898) (ascanius group/incertae sedis?)

   * Parides erithalion (Boisduval, 1836) – variable cattleheart

   * Parides iphidamas (Fabricius, 1793) – Transandean cattleheart

   * Parides panares (Gray, [1853]) – wedge-spotted cattleheart

   * Parides phosphorus (H.W. Bates, 1861) (ascanius group/incertae sedis?)

   * Parides vertumnus (Cramer, [1779])
