Gold Rim Swallowtail (Battus polydamas polydamas)

Botanical Gardens of Brasilia - DF, Brazil.

 

The Gold Rim Swallowtail (Battus polydamas) is a species of butterfly in the Papilionidae family, tribe Troidini.

 

Members of the tribe Troidini feed on poisonous pipevine plants and, 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. polydamas (Linnaeus, 1758)

Subspecies: B. p. polydamas

Scientific name: Battus polydamas polydamas

Synonyms: Papilio polydamas

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