Parides, commonly called cattlehearts, is a genus of swallowtail butterflies in the family Papilionidae. They are found in the Americas (Neotropical realm).

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Parides
Parides aeneas
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Papilionidae
Subfamily:	Papilioninae
Tribe:	Troidini
Genus:	Parides Hübner, [1819]
Species
Numerous, see text
Synonyms
Hectorides Hübner, 1821 Endopogon Lacordaire, 1833 Ascanides Geyer, 1837 Blakea Grote, 1875

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Listed alphabetically within groups according to Möhn et al., with annotations according to Wilts et al. (2014):^[1]

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])