Battus devilliersii explained

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

P. devilliers Godt. (6a). Hitherto known with certainty only from Cuba; the older authors assignedit to Florida also, which is perhaps due to an error. Tailed. Forewing with a submarginal row of whitespots ; 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. 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) page 158 fig. 12, underside (Cuba).
• Book: Collins . N. Mark . Morris . Michael G. . Threatened Swallowtail Butterflies of the World: The IUCN Red Data Book . 1985 . . Gland & Cambridge . 978-2-88032-603-6 . Biodiversity Heritage Library.

External links

• Butterflycorner Images from Naturhistorisches Museum Wien

Notes and References

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)
4. http://193.166.3.2/pub/sci/bio/life/insecta/lepidoptera/ditrysia/papilionoidea/papilionidae/papilioninae/battus/index.html Battus at Funet