Battus crassus
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| Mounted specimen of Battus crassus, on display at Museo di Scienze Naturali Enrico Caffi, Bergamo | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Papilionidae |
| Genus: | Battus |
| Species: | B. crassus |
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| Battus crassus (Cramer, 1777) | |
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Battus crassus, commonly known as the Crassus Swallowtail is a species of butterfly from the family Papilionidae.
Illustration of a form lacking the forewing patch
Description
A very long-winged species. Forewing with white patches in and below the cell; hindwing with large white costal area, which in the male reaches to the base. In the subspecies lepidus Fldr. the white patches on the upper surface of the forewing are absent.
The black-brown larva (probably variable in its ground-colour) has no spots. The thoracic hump of the pupa is very long and divided at the tip.
Foodplants
The larvae feed on:
- Aristolochia cymbifera
- Aristolochia esperanzae
- Aristolochia gigantea
- Aristolochia macroura
- Aristolochia veraguensis
- Aristolochia odora
- Aristolochia didyma
- Aristolochia brasiliensis[1]
Subspecies
- Battus crassus crassus (Peru, Surinam, Brazil: Amazonas, Rio de Janeiro, northern Argentina: Misiones)
- Battus crassus hirundo (Röber, 1925) (northern Bolivia)
- Battus crassus paraensis (Brown, 1994) (Brazil: Pará)
- Battus crassus lepidus (C. & R. Felder, 1861) (Costa Rica, Venezuela, western Colombia, western Ecuador)
References
- Lewis, H. L., 1974 Butterflies of the World ISBN 0-245-52097-X Page 23, figure 2.
- 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 14, figures 7-8, plate 15, figures 1-3, plate 20, figures 5-6, title figures 1-2.
- Paul 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 159 fig.16 (Peru).
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Butterflies and moths of South America (Papilionidae)
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