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Battus ingenuus - Wikipedia

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Dyar's swallowtail

Illustration from the Felders' Novara Expedition Atlas, male, dorsal view

Live Battus ingenuus, female, ventral view
Conservation status
Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Papilionidae
Genus:	Battus
Species:	B. ingenuus
Binomial name
*Battus ingenuus* (Dyar, 1907)
Synonyms
Papilio ingenuus Dyar, 1907 Papilio latinus C. Felder & R. Felder, 1861 preocc. (not Donovan, 1805) Papilio belus f. chrysomaculatus Niepelt, 1915 Papilio belus camposia Schaus, 1928 Papilio belus chalceus f. ochracea Vázquez, 1957

Battus ingenuus, the Dyar's swallowtail or confused swallowtail, is a species of butterfly in the family Papilionidae.^[1]^[2]

Description

Battus ingenuus has a wingspan of about 82–95 millimetres (3.2–3.7 in).^[3] The uppersides of the wings are basically black with greenish reflections and pale green patches on the hindwings, while the undersides are mainly brownish, with red and white spots on the edges of the hindwings. The body is blackish, with yellow spots on the sides of the thorax and the abdomen and a few white spots on the underside of the abdomen. Males have a pale yellowish-greenish upper abdomen.

Distribution

Battus ingenuus is present from southeastern Mexico to eastern Venezuela (Belize, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama, Peru and Trinidad).^[1]^[4]^[5]

Habitat

Battus ingenuus can be found from low elevations up to moderate elevations in the Andes, at about 900 metres (3,000 ft) above sea level. In monsoonal areas of Costa Rica, the habitat is known as tropical deciduous forest, where most of the trees lose their leaves at the end of the dry season.

Life cycle

The larvae feed on Aristolochia constricta.^[4] As the caterpillars feed off these poisonous pipevines, the insects become poisonous themselves, tasting very bad to birds.

References

^ ^a ^b Warren, A. D.; et al. (2010). "Battus ingenuus". Butterflies of America. Retrieved 24 January 2011.
^ Glassberg, Jeffrey (2007). A Swift Guide to the Butterflies of Mexico and Central America. Sunstreak Books Inc. p. 9. ISBN 978-1-4243-0915-3.
^ DH Janzen & W Hallwachs Area de Conservación Guanacaste (ACG)
^ ^a ^b Savela, Markku. "Battus ingenuus". funet.fi. Retrieved 24 January 2011.
^ Globis.insect

External links

Neotropical Butterflies
"Battus ingenuus (Dyar, 1907)". Insecta.pro.
Sangay National Park Ecuador
Real life image of Battus ingenuus

Taxon identifiers
Battus ingenuus	Wikidata: Q2891887 BioLib: 427065 BOLD: 452489 CoL: L3KF EoL: 4093910 GBIF: 5141321 iNaturalist: 258353 IRMNG: 11145597 IUCN: 160495 LepIndex: 166287
Papilio ingenuus	Wikidata: Q109585124 GBIF: 11074306