Battus polydamas antiquus
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Battus polydamas antiquus is an extinct subspecies of Battus polydamas from the knight butterfly family . It is only known from a drawing by the British entomologist Dru Drury from 1770. The distribution area was limited to the Caribbean island of Antigua .
Drury's illustration shows a male. The basic color of the fore and hind wings is black. A series of eight well-defined green spots runs across the top of the fore wings between the post-disk region and the basal region. The top four spots are small. The sixth, which is largest, is shorter than its distance from the outer edge. The row of spots on the upper side of the hind wings is narrower and the black border area is about a third wider than in the subspecies Battus polydamas thyamus from Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands . The anal vein is the same as in Batt polydamas thyamus . The underside of the forewings shows three small spots that run from the fourth to the second subcostal artery. On the underside of the hind wings, in the anal angle of the submarginal region, a row of strong brick-red spots can be seen. The black-rimmed wing edge is characterized by mother-of-pearl-colored spots.
literature
- Walter Rothschild , Karl Jordan : A Revision of the American Papilios. In: Novitates Zoologicae. A journal of zoology in connection with the Tring Museum , Vol. 13 (1906), p. 523, ISSN 0950-7655 .