Parides lysander

Lysander cattleheart
Plate accompanying the original description in Cramer and Stoll's Uitlandsche Kapellen, P. lysander top left and bottom right
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Papilionidae
Genus: Parides
Species:
P. lysander
Binomial name
Parides lysander
(Cramer, 1775)
Synonyms
  • Papilio lysander Cramer, [1775]
  • Papilio euristeus Cramer, 1775
  • Papilio arbates Stoll, [1782]
  • Papilio meleander Jablonsky, 1784
  • Papilio eurymas Godart, 1819
  • Papilio anaximander C. & R. Felder, 1865
  • Papilio lysander var. bari Oberthür, 1879
  • Papilio horracki Lathy, 1916
  • Papilio citrulli Fabricius, 1938
  • Papilio scaevola Fabricius, 1938
  • Papilio parsodes Gray, [1853]
  • Papilio sonoria Gray, [1853]
  • Priamides brissonius Hübner, [1819]
  • Papilio phrynichus C. & R. Felder, 1864
  • Papilio lysander f. stramineus Biedermann, 1938
  • Papilio lysander isanae Rousseau-Decelle, 1943
  • Papilio lysander f. extensa Rousseau-Decelle, 1943
  • Papilio lysander f. reducta Rousseau-Decelle, 1943
  • Papilio lysander mattogrossensis Talbot, 1928
  • Papilio lysander ab. antalcidas Krüger, 1933

Parides lysander, the Lysander cattleheart, is a species of butterfly in the family Papilionidae. It is found in the Neotropical realm.

The larvae feed on Aristolochia species including A. huberiana, A. sprucei, A. littoralis, A. ruiziana, and A. leuconeura.

Top left is P. lysander