Parides burchellanus

Parides burchellanus is a species of swallowtail butterfly (family Papilionidae). It is endemic to Brazil.

Parides burchellanus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Insecta
Order:
Lepidoptera
Family:
Papilionidae
Tribe:
Troidini
Genus:
Parides
Species:
P. burchellanus
Binomial name
Parides burchellanus
(Westwood, 1872) [2]
Synonyms

Parides panthonus jaguarae (Foetterle, 1902: male)

Description

Parides burchellanus is a large, velvet-black butterfly. The forewing is unmarked except for small, white marginal spots. The underside of the hindwing has small, red postdiscal spots. These are smaller and paler on the lower surface. The hindwing has a scalloped outer margin and a large androconial hair-pouch on the anal margin of the male. There are no tails. Apart from the hair-pouch, the sexes are alike. A full description is provided by Rothschild, W. and Jordan, K. (1906)[3]

  • Original description
  • in Seitz

Biology

The food plants of the larva are Aristolochia chamissonia and A. melastoma.

Taxonomy

Parides burchellanus is a member of the Parides aeneas species group and may be conspecific with, Parides aeneas. A suggested intermediate is known. [4]

The aeneas group members are

River vegetation in the Cerrado

Habitat and threats

P. burchellanus is a rare species or, if it is a subspecies, an evolutionarily significant unit, of butterfly (Lepidoptera, Papilionoidea) that lives in a very few areas in central Brazil. Its close relation with a highly peculiar environment (gallery or riparian forest along rivers running through the cerrado landscape) restricts its occurrence to a few points. The frailty of its habitat, towards the increasing of loss of natural environments, makes it a target prone to elimination.

The Parides burchellanus is associated with riparian forests in Brazil, in which these rare butterflies tend to inhabit narrow streams among sectors in which the river is cut off by the forest canopy. [5]

References
  1. Grice, H., Freitas, A.V.L., Rosa, A., Marini-Filho, O., Silva, F., Mega, N., Mielke, O. & Casagrande, M. 2018. Parides burchellanus. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2018: e.T16240A122600436. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2018-2.RLTS.T16240A122600436.en. Downloaded on 30 December 2018.
  2. Westwood, 1872 Descriptions of some new Papilionidae Trans. ent. Soc. Lond. 1872 (2) : 85-110, pl. 3-5
  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
  5. Beirão, Marina V., et al, , "Population Biology and Natural History of Parides Burchellanus"
  • 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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