Anchises Cattleheart (Parides anchises foetterlei)

Fazenda Grotão - DF, Brazil.

 

Anchises Cattleheart (Parides anchises) is a species of butterfly in the family Papilionidae.

 

Like other members in the genus Parides, this species is found in the Neotropical Ecozone.

 

P. a. foetterlei is found in Central to Southern Brazil.

 

Kingdom: Animalia

Phylum: Arthropoda

Class: Insecta

Order: Lepidoptera

Superfamily: Papilionoidea

Family: Papilionidae

Subfamily: Papilioninae

Tribe: Troidini

Genus: Parides Hübner, [1819]

Species: P. anchises (Linnaeus, 1758)

Subspecies: P. a. foetterlei (Rothchild & Jordan, 1906)

Scientific name: Parides anchises foetterlei

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