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Montezuma's Cattleheart

Parides montezuma

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Wildlife study photograph from iNaturalist.
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Easily confused with

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Where it is recorded

Records by month in Mexico.January 12, February 6, March 8, April 11, May 7, June 33, July 28, August 38, September 38, October 50, November 39, December 26.
Mexico296
Jalisco98
Oaxaca51
Costa Rica40
Yucatan37
Provincia Puntarenas30
Nayarit17
Veracruz de Ignacio de la Llave15
Hidalgo13
Guerrero12

Counts show where people looked, not only where it lives.

Traits

Physical

  • MetamorphosisUndergoes dramatic body transformation during developmentFrom its classification
  • ExoskeletonHas a hard external skeletonFrom its classification

Group and habits

  • Animal pollinatorDescends from an animal lineage whose members commonly pollinate flowers.Inferred from its group

Classification

KingdomAnimals · Animalia
PhylumArthropods · Arthropoda
ClassInsects · Insecta
OrderButterflies and Moths · Lepidoptera
FamilySwallowtails and Parnassians · Papilionidae
GenusCattlehearts · Parides

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