Battus devilliersii

Battus devilliersii
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Papilionidae
Genus:	Battus
Species:	B. devilliersii
Binomial name
	Battus devilliersii; (Godart, 1823)
Synonyms
	Papilio devilliersii Godart, 1823; Battus devilliers; Battus (Battus) devilliersi Möhn, 1999;

Battus devilliersii is a species of butterfly from the family Papilionidae that is found in Cuba and the Bahamas.^[1]

Description

It has tails on both hindwings. The forewings have a submarginal row of white spots. The hindwing on the upper surface has a submarginal band, and on the underside with one or more silver spots.^[2]

Description from Seitz

P. devilliers Godt. (6a). Hitherto known with certainty only from Cuba; the older authors assigned it to Florida also, which is perhaps due to an error. Tailed. Forewing with a submarginal row of white spots ; hind-wing on the upper surface with a submarginal band, and on the under with one or more silver spots. ^[3]

Biology

The larvae feed on Aristolochia elegans.^[4]

References

Edwin Möhn, 2002 Schmetterlinge der Erde, Butterflies of the World Part V (5), Papilionidae II:Battus. Edited by Erich Bauer and Thomas Frankenbach Keltern : Goecke & Evers ; Canterbury : Hillside Books.ISBN 978-3-931374-70-9 Illustrates and identifies 14 species and 49 subspecies.Plate 1, figures 5-8.
Smart, 1976 The Illustrated Encyclopedia of the Butterfly World in Color. London, Salamander:Encyclopedie des papillons. Lausanne, Elsevier Sequoia (French language edition) ISBN 9780948427046 ISBN 0600313816 page 158 fig. 12, underside (Cuba).
Collins, N. Mark; Morris, Michael G. (1985). Threatened Swallowtail Butterflies of the World: The IUCN Red Data Book. Gland & Cambridge: IUCN. ISBN 978-2-88032-603-6 – via Biodiversity Heritage Library.

^ Riley, N.D. (1975). A Field Guide to the Butterflies of the West Indies. Collins, London.
^ Rothschild, W. and Jordan, K. (1906). A revision of the American Papilios. Novitates Zoologicae 13: 411-752. (Facsimile edition ed. P.H. Arnaud, 1967).
^ Seitz, A. ed. Band 1: Abt. 1, Die Großschmetterlinge des palaearktischen Faunengebietes, Die palaearktischen Tagfalter, 1909, 379 Seiten, mit 89 kolorierten Tafeln (3470 Figuren) This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
^ Battus at Funet

External links

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[1] Riley, N.D. (1975). A Field Guide to the Butterflies of the West Indies. Collins, London.

[2] Rothschild, W. and Jordan, K. (1906). A revision of the American Papilios. Novitates Zoologicae 13: 411-752. (Facsimile edition ed. P.H. Arnaud, 1967).

[3] Seitz, A. ed. Band 1: Abt. 1, Die Großschmetterlinge des palaearktischen Faunengebietes, Die palaearktischen Tagfalter, 1909, 379 Seiten, mit 89 kolorierten Tafeln (3470 Figuren) This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.

[4] Battus at Funet

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