''Parides mithras'' is a species of
butterfly
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in the family
Papilionidae
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. It is found in
Venezuela
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,
Guyana,
French Guiana
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and
Brazil
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(
Amazonas).
''Parides mithras'' is very similar to ''
Parides chabrias'' but has paler and smaller spots, especially the last spot of the hindwing above. Rothshild and Jordan considered it to be a subspecies of ''P. triopas'' Godart, which is a synonym for ''
Parides chabrias''.
Original description
Expanse: inches (6.5 cm).
Male. Upperside. Both wings jet black. Anterior wings with three oval pale biscuit-coloured spots, one towards the apex, above the upper discoidal