Parides orellana

Parides orellana is a species of butterfly in the family Papilionidae. It is found in the Neotropical realm. (Colombia, Ecuador, Venezuela, Peru, Brazil (Amazonas)).

Parides orellana
Parides orellana with other Parides in Adalbert Seitz's Macrolepidoptera of the World
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Insecta
Order:
Lepidoptera
Family:
Papilionidae
Genus:
Parides
Species:
P. orellana
Binomial name
Parides orellana
(Hewitson, 1852)[1]
Synonyms
  • Papilio orellana Hewitson, 1852

The larvae possibly feed on Aristolochia barbata.

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

P. orellana Hew. (2 c). The most beautiful species of the aeneas-group. Forewing in both sexes black, bluish in a side-view, with white spots on the fringes. Hindwing in the male with a very large red area, not opalescent; in the female with a broad red band. — Upper Amazon, from Ega to Iquitos.[2]

  • Hewitson, W. C. (1852) Plate 5

Description from Rothschild and Jordan(1906)

A full description is provided by Rothschild, W. and Jordan, K. (1906)[3]

Taxonomy

Parides orellana is a member of the aeneas species group [4]

References
  1. Hewitson, W. C. (1852) Descriptions of Five new Species of Butterflies, of the Family Papilionidae. The Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 2 (1): 22-24; pls. 5-6.
  2. 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.
  3. 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
  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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