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Species of butterfly

Parides quadratus
Parides quadratus spoliatus in Museum Wiesbaden
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Papilionidae
Genus: Parides
Species: P. quadratus
Binomial name
Parides quadratus
(Staudinger, 1890)
Synonyms
  • Papilio quadratus Staudinger, 1890
  • Papilio quadratus Staudinger, 1891
  • Papilio quadratus var. spoliatus Staudinger, 1898
  • Papilio quadratus punctatus Michael, 1931

Parides quadratus is a species of butterfly in the family Papilionidae. It is found in Brazil and Peru.

Papilio quadratus var. spoliatus 1 male, 2 female in Rhopalocera exotica

Description

Forewing long; hindwing in both sexes with a band consisting of yellowish-white spots on the disc close to the cell, and on the under surface in addition with a red spot at the hind angle. In the name-typical form quadratus the forewing has a yellowish-white spot before the second median. In spoliatus Staudinger neither sex has a spot on the forewing.

Taxonomy

Parides quadratus is a member of the chabrias species group

The members are

Status

A rare species.

Subspecies

  • Parides quadratus quadratus (Brazil: eastern Amazonas)
  • Parides quadratus spoliatus (Staudinger, 1898) (Brazil: western Amazonas, northern Peru)

References

  1. Praides, Site of Markku Savela
  2. Staudinger, 1890 Bemerkungen zu den Tafeln III und IV Dtsch. Entomol. Z. Iris 3 (2) : 337-338, pl. 3-4
  3. Edwin Mรถhn, 2007 Butterflies of the World, Part 26: Papilionidae XIII. Parides Verlag Goecke & Evers Verlag Goecke & Evers ISBN 9783937783277

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Taxon identifiers
Parides quadratus
Papilio quadratus


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