{{Short description|Species of butterfly}} {{Speciesbox | image = FaunaamericanparsII1plate1.jpg | status = LC | status_system = IUCN3.1 |status_ref = <ref name="iucn status 15 November 2021">{{cite iucn |author=Grice, H. |author2=Böhm, M. |date=2018 |title=''Parides vercingetorix'' |volume=2018 |article-number=e.T122550460A122603481 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2018-2.RLTS.T122550460A122603481.en |access-date=15 November 2021}}</ref> | taxon = Parides vercingetorix | authority = (Oberthür, 1888) | synonyms = * ''Papilio coelus'' <small>Boisduval, 1836<ref>Boisduval, 1836 ''Histoire Naturelle des Insectes''. Species Général des Lépidoptéres. Tome Premier</ref> (''non'' Stoll, 1781: preoccupied)</small> * ''Papilio vercingetorix'' <small>Oberthür, 1888</small> * ''Parides coelus'' <small>(Boisduval, 1836, ''non'' Stoll, 1781: preoccupied)</small> }}
'''''Parides vercingetorix''''' is a species of butterfly in the family Papilionidae. It is endemic to French Guiana. Formerly, this species was known as '''''Parides coelus''''' and originally described as ''Papilio coelus'' by Jean Baptiste Boisduval in 1836, but that name was already used in 1781 by Stoll for the butterfly now known as ''Aguna coelus''. Consequently, the ''Parides'' species had to receive a new name.
==Description== Forewing with a white spot, obsolete at the margins, which fills up the extremity of the cell, and extends on to the disc. Hindwing with red band on the disc, in the male composed of four spots, in the female of six. A full description is provided by Rothschild, W. and Jordan, K. (1906)<ref>Rothschild, W. and Jordan, K. (1906). A revision of the American Papilios. ''Novitates Zoologicae'' 13: 411-752. (Facsimile edition ed. P.H. Arnaud, 1967) and [https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/21926#page/425/mode/1up online]</ref>
==Description from Seitz== {{Lepidopteran glossary hatnote}} P. coelus Boisd. (male = ''vercingetorix'' Oberth.) (Id). Forewing with a white spot, obsolete at the margins, which fills up the extremity of the cell, and extends on to the disc. Hindwing with red band on the disc, in the male composed of four spots, in the female of six. — French Guiana, the male in Oberthur's Collection, one female in the Paris Museum.<ref> Jordan, K., in Seitz, A. ( 1907) . ''The Macrolepidoptera of the World''. 5: The Macrolepidoptera of the American faunistic region. Papilionidae 1-45. {{PD-notice}}</ref>
==Taxonomy== ''Parides vercingetorix'' is a member of the ''chabrias'' species group<ref>Edwin Möhn, 2007 ''Butterflies of the World'', Part 26: Papilionidae XIII. ''Parides'' Verlag Goecke & Evers Verlag Goecke & Evers {{ISBN|9783937783277}} </ref>
The members are *''Parides chabrias'' *''Parides coelus'' *''Parides hahneli'' *''Parides mithras'' *''Parides pizarro'' *''Parides quadratus''
==Status== A rare little known species.
==References== {{Reflist}} *Lewis, H. L., 1974 ''Butterflies of the World'' {{ISBN|0-245-52097-X}} Page 26, figure 6, female *{{cite book |last1=Collins |first1=N. Mark |last2=Morris |first2=Michael G. |title=Threatened Swallowtail Butterflies of the World: The IUCN Red Data Book |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/98674#page/7/mode/1up |year=1985 |publisher=IUCN |location=Gland & Cambridge |isbn=978-2-88032-603-6 |via=Biodiversity Heritage Library}}
== External links == {{Commons category-inline|Parides vercingetorix}}
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Category:Endemic fauna of French Guiana Category:Lepidoptera of French Guiana vercingetorix Category:Swallowtail butterflies of South America Category:Taxonomy articles created by Polbot
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