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

For a key to the terms used, see Glossary of entomology terms.

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.

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

External links

• Butterflycorner Images from Naturhistorisches Museum Wien