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Pink-spotted windmill

Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Papilionidae
Genus:	Byasa
Species:	B. impediens
Binomial name
*Byasa impediens* (Seitz, 1907)^[1]
Synonyms
Atrophaneura impediens (Rothschild, 1895)^[2]

Byasa impediens, the pink-spotted windmill, is a species of butterfly from the family Papilionidae (swallowtails) found in Taiwan.^[3]

The wingspan is 10–11 cm. The wings are black and have large light pink spots. The underside of the wings are similar to the upside. The body is partially black with a covering of red hairs underneath.

The larva feeds on Aristolochia species.

Status

No data on conservation status; more research needed.^[4] Subspecies B. i. febanus is sometimes accepted as a separate species.

References

^ Häuser, Christoph L.; de Jong, Rienk; Lamas, Gerardo; Robbins, Robert K.; Smith, Campbell; Vane-Wright, Richard I. (28 July 2005). "Papilionidae – revised GloBIS/GART species checklist (2nd draft)". Entomological Data Information System. Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde Stuttgart, Germany. Archived from the original on 9 September 2010. Retrieved 21 June 2013.. See note on "impediens" regarding reason for change of authority.
^ Funet, Atrophaneura
^ "ButterflyCorner.net". Archived from the original on 2012-09-17. Retrieved 2011-07-15.
^ Collins, N. Mark; Morris, Michael G. (1985). Threatened Swallowtail Butterflies of the World: The IUCN Red Data Book. Gland & Cambridge: IUCN. ISBN 978-2-88032-603-6 – via Biodiversity Heritage Library.

External links

Media related to Atrophaneura impediens at Wikimedia Commons
Global Butterfly Information System text, images including holotype of subspecies febanus Fruhstorfer, 1908

v t e Red-bodied swallowtails
Atrophaneura	A. aidoneus (lesser batwing) A. dixoni A. horishana (aurora swallowtail) A. kuehni A. luchti A. nox (Malayan batwing) A. priapus (Priapus batwing) A. schadenbergi A. semperi A. sycorax A. veruna (common batwing) A. zaleucus
Byasa	B. adamsoni (Adamson's rose) B. alcinous (Chinese windmill) B. crassipes (black windmill) B. daemonius B. dasarada (great windmill) B. hedistus B. impediens B. laos B. latreillei (rose windmill) B. mencius B. nevilli (Nevill's windmill) B. plutonius (Chinese windmill) B. polla (De Niceville's windmill) B. polyeuctes (common windmill) B. rhadinus
Losaria	L. coon (common clubtail) L. palu (Palu swallowtail) L. rhodifer (Andaman clubtail) L. neptunus (yellow-bodied club-tail)
Pachliopta	P. adamas P. aristolochiae (common rose) P. antiphus P. atropos P. hector (crimson rose) P. jophon (Sri Lanka rose) P. kotzebuea (pink rose) P. eytensis P. liris P. mariae P. oreon P. pandiyana (Malabar rose) P. phlegon P. polydorus (red-bodied swallowtail) P. polyphontes P. strandi

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