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Species of butterfly
Battus polydamas , also known as the gold rim swallowtail , the Polydamas swallowtail or the tailless swallowtail , is a species of
butterfly in the family
Papilionidae . The species was first
described by
Carl Linnaeus in his
10th edition of Systema Naturae , published in 1758.
Description
The
wingspan is 90 to 120 mm (3.5 to 4.7 in) without the tail. The top of the wings are black with a broad submarginal band formed by large yellow spots. The undersides of the forewings have the same pattern, while the hindwings have a submarginal row of red lunules. This butterfly flies from April to November in three generations in the north of its range, throughout the year in several generations in the tropics. The larvae feed on
Aristolochia plant species.
Distribution
It is found in the
Neotropical realm throughout
Mexico ,
Central and
South America , the
Caribbean , and the southern United States (in
Texas and
Florida ).
[3]
Habitat
Battus polydamas is mainly present in open woods and abandoned fields.
Subspecies
The species is divided into the following subspecies:
B. p. antiquus, extinct subspecies
†
B. p. antiquus (Rothschild & Jordan, 1906) –
Antigua (
extinct )
B. p. archidamas (Boisduval, 1836) –
Chile
B. p . atahualpa Racheli & Pischedda, 1987 –
Peru
B. p. cebriones (Dalman, 1823) -
Martinique
B. p. christopheranus (Hall, 1936) -
Saint Kitts and Nevis ,
Montserrat (possibly extinct)
B. p. cubensis (Dufrane, 1946) –
Cuba (including
Isla de la Juventud ),
Cayman Islands (
Grand Cayman )
B. p. dominicus (Rothschild & Jordan, 1906) –
Dominica
B. p. grenadensis (Hall, 1930) -
Grenada , possibly southern
Grenadines
B. p. jamaicensis , Jamaica
B. p. jamaicensis (Rothschild & Jordan, 1906) –
Jamaica
B. p. lucayus (Rothschild & Jordan, 1906) – Florida,
Bahamas
B. p. lucianus (Rothschild & Jordan, 1906) –
St. Lucia (possibly extinct)
B. p. neodamas (Lucas, 1852) –
Guadeloupe
B. p. peruanus (Fuchs, 1954) – Peru
B. p. polycrates (Hopffer, 1865) –
Hispaniola (
Haiti and the
Dominican Republic )
B. p. polydamas , Southern Amazon, Brazil
B. p. polydamas (Linnaeus, 1758) – tropical Central and South America
B. p. psittacus (Molina, 1782) – Chile,
Argentina
B. p. renani Lamas, 1998 – Peru
B. p. streckerianus (Honrath, 1884) – Peru
B. p. thyamus (Rothschild & Jordan, 1906) –
Puerto Rico (including
Culebra ),
Virgin Islands
B. p. vincentius (Rothschild & Jordan, 1906) -
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
B. p. xenodamas (Hübner, 1825) – Martinique
[4]
B. p. weyrauchi Lamas, 1998 – Peru
[3]
See also
References
^ Grice, H.; Hall, P.; Mega, N.; Nunez-Bustos, E.; Freitas, A.V.L. (2018).
"Battus polydamas " .
IUCN Red List of Threatened Species . 2018 : e.T110520503A110520514.
doi :
10.2305/IUCN.UK.2018-2.RLTS.T110520503A110520514.en . Retrieved 5 December 2022 .
^
"NatureServe Explorer 2.0 - Battus polydamas Polydamas Swallowtail" . explorer.natureserve.org . Retrieved 20 September 2020 .
^
a
b Savela, Markku.
"Battus polydamas (Linnaeus, 1758)" . Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms . Retrieved September 16, 2019 .
^
"Battus polydamas (Linnaeus, 1758)" . Catalogue of the Lepidoptera of the French Antilles . Retrieved September 16, 2019 .
Mathew, G. F. (1877). "Life history of Papilio archidamas ".
Entomologist's Monthly Magazine . 14 (163): 152–153.
Brown, F. Martin & Heineman, Bernard. Jamaica and its Butterflies . (E. W. Classey, London 1972), plate VIII
Smart, Paul (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. 19 as B. archidamas Bsdv., underside (Chile), fig. 17 as polydamas (Mexico).
External links
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