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Crassus Swallowtail
Battus crassus
Battus crassus, the Crassus swallowtail, is a species of butterfly from the family Papilionidae.
From the article Battus crassus on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA), quoted section by section
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.
At the table
The larvae feed on:
Aristolochia cymbifera Aristolochia esperanzae Aristolochia gigantea Aristolochia macroura Aristolochia veraguensis Aristolochia odora Aristolochia didyma Aristolochia brasiliensis
Wikipedia: “Food plants”
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Recorded sightings
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In the stacks
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 126388.