Endangered
Parides burchellanus
Parides burchellanus
Parides burchellanus is a moth or butterfly in the family Papilionidae (order Lepidoptera), recorded as Endangered and tied to Brazil.
Appearance
The forewing is unmarked except for small, white marginal spots.
Range and habitat
Parides burchellanus is recorded from Brazil.
Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.
Diet
The adult is what most collections hold. The larva — the feeding stage — is often undescribed for the rarest names.
Life history follows the order: complete metamorphosis in moths and beetles, nymphs in grasshoppers and bugs. This page does not invent a host plant that no source named.
In crisis
It is one of only two butterflies on the IUCN's 100 Most Endangered Species in the World, the other being Actinote zikani.
CITES lists this taxon on Appendix I. Confirm the current appendix on the CITES checklist.
Named moths and butterflies with a high threat category are often known from a small range and a thin series. Host-plant loss leaves little to recount.
Parides burchellanus is Endangered on this catalog because that is the IUCN category stored on Wikidata. Confirm the official criteria and any later count on iucnredlist.org.
Sources
Written for this catalog from the English Wikipedia article on Parides burchellanus, Wikidata item Q1316763. Family and order context is original field-guide writing about the group, not a copied assessment of this one species. Wikipedia text is CC BY-SA. Not an IUCN assessment. Counts, when quoted, can change — confirm them on the recovery programme and on iucnredlist.org.
