Parides cutorina

Parides cutorina is a species of butterfly in the family Papilionidae. It is found in the Neotropical realm (Ecuador, Peru, and Brazil: Pará and Amazonas). It is an uncommon local species which may be threatened.^[1]

Parides cutorina
Parides cutorina and related species
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Papilionidae
Genus:	Parides
Species:	P. cutorina
Binomial name
Parides cutorina (Staudinger, 1898)
Synonyms
Papilio cutorina Staudinger, 1898 Papilio cutorina f. dilutus Joicey & Talbot, 1922 Papilio mazeppa Grose-Smith, 1899

The larvae feed on Aristolochia.

Description from Seitz

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

P. cutorina Stgr. (female = mazeppa Grose-Smith) (3 c). Palpi red. Forewing of the male with a green spot; in the female without spot, the fringes spotted with white. Hindwing in the male with two contiguous red spots on the upper surface, the spots on the under surface yellowish white; in the female the wing has a yellowish white band on both surfaces; 2. and 3. radials close together, the transverse vein between them not oblique. — Upper Amazon and slopes of the Andes of Ecuador and Peru.^[2]

Description from Rothschild and Jordan(1906)

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

Taxonomy

Parides cutorina is a member of the anchises species group^[4]

The members are

• Parides anchises
• Parides cutorina
• Parides erithalion
• Parides iphidamas
• Parides panares
• Parides phosphorus
• Parides vertumnus