Battus polydamas antiquus

Battus polydamas antiquus
Battus polydamas antiquus (Male)
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Papilionidae
Tribe: Troidini
Genus: Battus
Species: B. polydamas
Subspecies: B. p. antiquus
Trinomial name
Battus polydamas antiquus
(Rothschild & Jordan, 1906)

Battus polydamas antiquus is an extinct subspecies of the Polydamas Swallowtail within the Papilionidae family. It is only known by a drawing from 1770 by British entomologist Dru Drury. It was endemic to Antigua.

Drury's illustration depicts a male. The ground color of the fore and hindwings is black. The upperside of the forewings consists of a row of eight green spots. The upper four spots are small. The sixth one is the biggest. The row of spots on the hind wing is narrower.

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