Battus crassus

Battus crassus
Mounted specimen on display at Museo di Scienze Naturali Enrico Caffi, Bergamo
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Papilionidae
Genus: Battus
Species: B. crassus
Binomial name
Battus crassus
(Cramer, 1777)
Synonyms
  • Papilio crassus Cramer, 1777
  • Battus (Battus) crassus Brown & Mielke, 1967
  • Papilio lepidus C. & R. Felder, 1861

Battus crassus, 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.

Food plants

The larvae feed on:

Subspecies

References

External links

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