Crassus Swallowtail (Battus crassus)

Altiplano Leste - Brasilia, DF, Brazil.

 

Members of the tribe Troidini feed on poisonous pipevine plants, typically of the genus Aristolochia, as larvae. As a result, they themselves are poisonous, unpalatable and taste very bad to predators. Since birds avoid these butterflies, other swallowtail species mimic their coloration.

 

Kingdom: Animalia

Phylum: Arthropoda

Class: Insecta

Order: Lepidoptera

Superfamily: Papilionoidea

Family: Papilionidae

Subfamily: Papilioninae

Tribe: Troidini

Genus: Battus Scopoli, 1777

Species: B. crassus (Cramer, 1777)

Scientific name: Battus crassus

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