Parides panares, the wedge-spotted cattleheart,[1] is a species of butterfly in the family Papilionidae native to the Americas.

Female: forewing slightly transparent at the apex; the spots somewhat yellowish, not pure white, the cell-spot usually large and extended across the cell; band of the hindwing less bright red than in P. vertumnus.

In the female the yellowish white spot before the 1.median much larger than the preceding one; band of the hindwing broad, almost always a uniform bright red.

(3d), male : the green spot broader than in the preceding form, reaching to the hindmargin of the wing.

Small, male : forewing with round yellow-white spot before the 2. median; band of the hindwing short and narrow.