Battus laodamas

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Battus laodamas
Papilionidae - Battus laodamas.JPG
Mounted specimen on display at Museo di Scienze Naturali Enrico Caffi, Bergamo
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Papilionidae
Genus: Battus
Species:
B. laodamas
Binomial name
Battus laodamas
Synonyms
  • Papilio laodamas(C. Felder & R. Felder, 1859)
  • Papilio chrysodamas(H.W. Bates, 1864)
  • Papilio chromealus(Ehrmann, 1912)
  • Papilio procas(Godman & Salvin, 1890) (preocc. Cramer, 1777)

Battus laodamas, the green-patch swallowtail or yellow-spotted swallowtail, is a species of butterfly in the family Papilionidae.

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Description

Battus laodamas has a wingspan of about 90 millimetres (3.5 in). It is a black or dark brown butterfly with green reflections. The dorsal side of the hindwings shows a broad cream or pale green band and a series of cream or pale green spots. The underside of the wings is lighter brown, with a submarginal line of whitish spots on the forewings and a submarginal line of red markings on the hindwings. The forewings have a rounded apex and the outer edge of the hindwings is scalloped. The host plant of its caterpillars is Aristolochia tentaculata .

Distribution

This species is native to the Neotropical realm. [1] [2] It is present in Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia and Venezuela.

Subspecies

References

  1. Warren, A. D.; et al. (2010). "Battus laodamas". Butterflies of America. Retrieved 24 January 2011.
  2. Glassberg, Jeffrey (2007). A Swift Guide to the Butterflies of Mexico and Central America. Sunstreak Books Inc. p. 9. ISBN   978-1-4243-0915-3.
  3. 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
  4. 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

Further reading