Parides tros

Parides tros
Mounted female specimen
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Papilionidae
Genus: Parides
Species: P. tros
Binomial name
Parides tros
(Fabricius, 1793)
Synonyms
  • Papilio tros Fabricius, 1793
  • Papilio dardanus Fabricius, 1793 (preocc. Brown, 1776)
  • Papilio opleus Godart, 1819

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

The larva feeds on Aristolochia species including A. rumicifolia, A. cynanchifolia (P. t. tros), A. triangularis (P. t. danunciae).

Subspecies

References

  1. Lewis, H. L., 1974 Butterflies of the World ISBN 0-245-52097-X Page 26, figure 26
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