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Battus polydamas (Polydamus swallowtail)

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Wikipedia Abstract

Battus polydamas, the gold rim swallowtail, Polydamas swallowtail or tailless swallowtail, is a butterfly of the family Papilionidae.
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Infraspecies

Battus polydamas cebriones
Battus polydamas neodamas
Battus polydamas polydamas (Polydamas Swallowtail)

Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  .55 grams
Litter Size [2]  313
Speed [1]  12.974 MPH (5.8 m/s)

Prey / Diet

External References

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Citations

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♦ 1FLIGHT PHYSIOLOGY OF NEOTROPICAL BUTTERFLIES: ALLOMETRY OF AIRSPEEDS DURING NATURAL FREE FLIGHT, ROBERT DUDLEY AND ROBERT B. SRYGLEY, J. exp. Biol. 191, 125–139 (1994)
♦ 2Body size, egg size, and their interspecific relationships with ecological and life history traits in butterflies (Lepidoptera: Papilionoidea, Hesperioidea), Enrique García-Barros, Biological Journal of the Linnean Society (2000), 70: 251–284
♦ 3HOSTS - a Database of the World's Lepidopteran Hostplants Gaden S. Robinson, Phillip R. Ackery, Ian J. Kitching, George W. Beccaloni AND Luis M. Hernández
♦ 4Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0