| Poey's black swallowtail | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Papilionidae |
| Genus: | Papilio |
| Species: | P. caiguanabus |
| Binomial name | |
| Papilio caiguanabus (Poey, 1851) | |
Papilio caiguanabus, the Poey's black swallowtail, is a species of Neotropical butterfly in the family Papilionidae. It is endemic to Cuba.
On the obverse, the wings are dark brown. The forewings have a series of submarginal yellow dots and a few yellow macules at the apex. The hindwings have tails and bear a postdiscal row of macules, yellow in the male and white in the female, and a red dot in the anal angle. The reverse side is very similar but the hindwings bear two additional red dots and blue disc lunulae.
P. caiguanabus has a peculiar appearance owing to the absence of the yellow discal bands and the enlargement of the submarginal spots. [2]
Papilio caiguanabus is a member of the Papilio thoas species group
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