Parides echemon

Parides echemon
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Papilionidae
Genus:	Parides
Species:	P. echemon
Binomial name
Parides echemon (Hübner, [1813])
Synonyms
Princeps echemon Hübner, [1813] Princeps echelus Hübner, [1815] Papilio spartacus Doubleday, 1846 Papilio echelus var. spartacus Gray, [1853] Papilio ergeteles Gray, [1853] Papilio echelus var. echephron Bates, 1861 Papilio polyphron C. & R. Felder, 1865 Papilio echion C. & R. Felder, 1865 Papilio pisander C. & R. Felder, 1865

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

It is common and not threatened.

Subspecies

• P. e. echemon Brazil (Pará)
• P. e. ergeteles (Gray, [1853]) Guianas, French Guiana, Surinam, Brazil (Pará)
• P. e. empistocles Küppers, 1975 southeastern Peru
• P. e. pisander (C. & R. Felder, 1865) French Guiana

References

• Collins, N. Mark; Morris, Michael G. (1985). Threatened Swallowtail Butterflies of the World: The IUCN Red Data Book. Gland & Cambridge: IUCN. ISBN 978-2-88032-603-6.
• 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)