Parides burchellanus

Parides burchellanus is a large, velvet-black butterfly. The forewing is unmarked except for small, white marginal spots. The underside of the hindwing has small, red postdiscal spots. These are smaller and paler on the lower surface. The hindwing has a scalloped outer margin and a large androconial hair-pouch on the anal margin of the male. There are no tails. Apart from the hair-pouch, the sexes are alike.

A full description is provided by Rothschild, W. and Jordan, K. (1906).{{cite journal|author=Rothschild, W. |author2= Jordan, K. |year=1906|title= A revision of the American Papilios|journal=Novitates Zoologicae|volume=13|pages= 411–752|doi= 10.5962/bhl.part.22801 |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/21926#page/425/mode/1up|doi-access=free}}

File:TransactionsES1872P.burchellanus.jpg| Original description

File:Macrolepidoptera15seit 0015.jpg| in Seitz

The food plants of the larvae are Aristolochia chamissonia and A. melastoma.

Parides burchellanus is a member of the Parides aeneas species group and may be conspecific with Parides aeneas. A suggested intermediate is known.Edwin Möhn, 2007 Butterflies of the World, Part 26: Papilionidae XIII. Parides Verlag Goecke & Evers Verlag Goecke & Evers {{ISBN|9783937783277}}

The aeneas group members are

• Parides aeneas
• Parides aglaope
• Parides burchellanus
• Parides echemon
• Parides eurimedes
• Parides lysander
• Parides neophilus
• Parides orellana
• Parides panthonus
• Parides tros
• Parides zacynthus

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P. burchellanus is a rare species or, if it is a subspecies, an evolutionarily significant unit, of butterfly (Lepidoptera, Papilionoidea) that lives in a very few areas in central Brazil. Its close relation with a highly peculiar environment (gallery or riparian forest along rivers running through the cerrado landscape) restricts its occurrence to a few points. The frailty of its habitat, towards the increasing of loss of natural environments, makes it a target prone to elimination.

P. burchellanus is associated with riparian forests in Brazil, in which these rare butterflies tend to inhabit narrow streams among sectors in which the river is cut off by the forest canopy.{{cite journal |author=Marina V. Beirão|author2= Fernando C. Campos-Neto|author3= Ivan A. Pimenta|author4= André V. L. Freitas |url=https://bioone.org/journals/Annals-of-the-Entomological-Society-of-America/volume-105/issue-1/AN10175/Population-Biology-and-Natural-History-of-Parides-burchellanus-Papilionidae/10.1603/AN10175.full |title=Population Biology and Natural History of Parides burchellanus|journal=Annals of the Entomological Society of America|volume= 105|issue=1|pages=36–43 |year=2012|doi=10.1603/AN10175}}

The name honours William John Burchell.

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• Edwin Möhn, 2006 Schmetterlinge der Erde, Butterflies of the World Part XXVI (26), Papilionidae XIII. Parides. Edited by Erich Bauer and Thomas Frankenbach Keltern: Goecke & Evers; Canterbury: Hillside Books. {{ISBN|978-3-937783-27-7}} (Supplement 13 in English - by Racheli)

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burchellanus

Category:Lepidoptera of Brazil

Category:Endemic insects of Brazil

Category:Papilionidae of South America

Category:Taxonomy articles created by Polbot

Category:Butterflies described in 1872

Category:Taxa named by John O. Westwood

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