Parides panares
Parides panares, the wedge-spotted cattleheart, is a species of butterfly in the family Papilionidae native to the Americas. The larvae feed on Aristolochia maxima and A. pilosa. Subspecies P. p. panares (Gray, [1853]) (southeastern Mexico) P. p. erythrus (Rothchild & Jordan, 1906) (Panama to Colombia) P. p. lycimenes (Boisduval, 1836) (southeastern Mexico to Panama) P. p. paralius (Rothchild & Jordan, 1906) (Ecuador) P. p. rachelii K. S. Brown, 1994 (northern Venezuela) P. p. tachira T. Racheli, 1991 (southwestern Venezuela) Description from Seitz [panares panares = iphidamas in Seitz (misident.) Mexico] P. lycimenes. Male : somewhat smaller than P. vertumnus, the red area of the hindwing less triangular and its last spot smaller. Female: forewing slightly transparent at the apex; the spots somewhat yellowish, not pure white, the cell-spot usually large and extended across the cell; band of the hindwing less bright red than in P. vertumnus. Tibiae of the male not thickened. Guatemala to Ecuador, in several subspecies. — lycimenes Boisd. is the Central American form. Forewing with a large green spot, which almost always encloses at least one white spot; often a spot in the cell; hindwing with 4—6 red spots. In the female the yellowish white spot before