title: Parides
text: # Parides
  
  Parides, commonly called cattlehearts, is a genus of swallowtail butterflies in the family Papilionidae. They are found in the Americas (Neotropical realm).
  
  ## Species
  
  Listed alphabetically within groups according to Möhn et al., with annotations according to Wilts et al. (2014):
  
  species group: ascanius (disputed: basal/plesiomorphic?)
  
     * Parides agavus (Drury, 1782)
  
     * Parides alopius (Godman & Salvin, [1890]) – white-dotted cattleheart
  
     * Parides ascanius (Cramer, [1775]) – Fluminense swallowtail
  
     * Parides bunichus (Hübner, [1821])
  
     * Parides gundlachianus (C. & R. Felder, 1864) – Cuban cattleheart (anchises group?)
  
     * Parides montezuma (Westwood, 1842) – Montezuma's cattleheart (possibly new panthonus group)
  
     * Parides phalaecus (Hewitson, 1869)
  
     * Parides photinus (Doubleday, 1844) – pink-spotted cattleheart (basal in anchises group?)
  
     * Parides proneus (Hübner, [1831])
  
  species group: klagesi (incertae sedis)
  
     * Parides klagesi (Ehrmann, 1904)
  
  species group: chabrias
  
     * Parides chabrias (Hewitson, 1852)
  
     * Parides hahneli (Staudinger, 1882) – Hahnel's Amazonian swallowtail
  
     * Parides mithras (Grose-Smith, 1902)
  
     * Parides pizarro (Staudinger, 1884) – formerly P. steinbachi (ascanius group/incertae sedis?)
  
     * Parides quadratus (Staudinger, 1890)
  
     * Parides vercingetorix (Oberthür, 1888) – formerly P. coelus (ascanius group/incertae sedis?)
  
  species group: aeneas
  
     * Parides aeneas (Linnaeus, 1758)
  
     * Parides aglaope (Gray, [1853]) (ascanius group/incertae sedis?)
  
     * Parides burchellanus (Westwood, 1872) (possibly new panthonus group)
  
     * Parides echemon (Hübner, [1813])
  
     * Parides eurimedes (Stoll, [1782]) – pink-checked cattleheart or mylotes cattleheart
  
     * Parides lysander (Cramer, [1775]) – Lysander cattleheart (possibly basalmost living species of group)
  
     * Parides neophilus (Geyer, 1837) – neophilus cattleheart
  
     * Parides orellana (Hewitson, 1852) (tentatively placed here)
  
     * Parides panthonus (Cramer, [1780]) – panthonus cattleheart (possibly new panthonus group)
  
     * Parides tros (Fabricius, 1793)
  
     * Parides zacynthus (Fabricius, 1793)
  
  species group: sesostris (sister to aeneas and/or anchises group/s?)
  
     * Parides childrenae (Gray, 1832) – green-celled cattleheart
  
     * Parides sesostris (Cramer, [1779]) – emerald-patched cattleheart
  
  species group: anchises
  
     * Parides anchises (Linnaeus, 1758) – Anchises cattleheart
  
     * Parides cutorina (Staudinger, 1898) (ascanius group/incertae sedis?)
  
     * Parides erithalion (Boisduval, 1836) – variable cattleheart
  
     * Parides iphidamas (Fabricius, 1793) – Transandean cattleheart
  
     * Parides panares (Gray, [1853]) – wedge-spotted cattleheart
  
     * Parides phosphorus (H.W. Bates, 1861) (ascanius group/incertae sedis?)
  
     * Parides vertumnus (Cramer, [1779])
  