Main Introduction Page Electronic Reference Library Citation for this website Know-how Glossary of acronyms and other terms used on this website Support the Butterflies of America Foundation Interactive Listing of American Butterflies Learn about contributing your photos Photographer Credits Contact us
index sitemap advanced

Battus p. philenor (Linnaeus, 1771)
(Pipevine Swallowtail)

Pinned Specimens
photo collection:

Live Adults photo collection
Page 1:

Live Adults photo collection
Page 2:

Live Adults photo collection
Page 3:

Immatures
photo collection:

Larval Foodplants and Habitats
photo collection:

Distribution and Larval Foodplants:
 

Aristolochiaceae: Aristolochia erecta L., Aristolochia macrophylla Lam., Aristolochia reticulata  Jacq., Aristolochia serpentaria L., Aristolochia tomentosa Sims, Aristolochia watsonii Woot. & Standl.

Synonymy

Bibliography

Brower, Jane Van Zandt. 1958. Experimental Studies of Mimicry in some North American Butterflies. Part II. Battus philenor and Papilio troilus, P. polyxenes, and P. glaucus. Evolution 12(2): 123-136, 4 tables {30 Jun 1958} 

Fordyce, James A. and Chris C. Nice. 2003. Contemporary patterns in a historical context; phylogeographic history of the pipevine swallowtail, Battus philenor (Papilionidae). Evolution 57(5): 1089-1099, 4 figs., 4 tabs. {10 June 2003} 

Gillaspy, James E. and Johnny R. Lara. 1984. Rainstorm behavior of pipevine swallowtails, Battus philenor (L.). Journal of the Lepidopterists' Society 38(2): 142-143 {16 August 1984} 

Linnaeus, Carolus. 1771. Regni animalis, Appendix. Insecta, pp. 529-543. In: Mantissa plantarum altera generum editionis VI & specierum editionis II. Holmiae, Laurentius Salvius. Pp. [i-vi], 143-588. ([17 October]) [description of Papilio philenor

Möhn, Edwin. 1999. Papilionidae II. Battus. In: Bauer, E. & T. Frankenbach (Eds.), Schmetterlinge der Erde. Tagfalter. Keltern, Goecke & Evers. 5: 1-13, 20 pls. {15 October 1999; English ed. published 22 October} 

Racheli, Tommaso, and M. Oliverio. 1993. Biogeographical patterns of the neotropical genus Battus Scopoli 1777 (Lepidoptera Papilionidae). Tropical Zoology 6(1): 55-65, 3 figs., 3 tabs. {May 1993} 

Racheli, Tommaso, and Lorraine Pariset. 1992. Il genere Battus. Tassonomia e storia naturale (Lepidoptera, Papilionidae). Fragmenta entomologica (Roma) 23(supplemento): 1-163, 27 pls., 38 figs., 4 tabs. {30 June 1992} 

Rausher, Mark D. 1979. Larval habitat suitability and oviposition preference in three related butterflies. Ecology 60(3): 503-511, 3 figs., 7 tabs. {June 1979} 

Rausher, Mark D. 1995. Behavioral ecology of oviposition in the pipevine swallowtail, Battus philenor, pp. 53-62, 7 figs. In: J. M. Scriber, Y. Tsubaki and R. C. Lederhouse (Eds.), Swallowtail butterflies: Their ecology and evolutionary biology. Gainesville, Scientific Publishers. {1995} 

Tyler, Hamilton Alden, Keith Spalding Brown, Jr. and Kent H. Wilson. 1994. Swallowtail butterflies of the Americas. A study in biological dynamics, ecological diversity, biosystematics and conservation. Gainesville, Fl.; Scientific Publishers: 376 pp., 3 + 100 pls., figs., tabs., maps {[30 Sep] 1994}

Top of PageMain PageReference Library Literature ListCitation Interactive Listing

This website is property of Butterflies of America Foundation, a U.S. registered 501(c)(3) tax-deductible nonprofit 170(b)(1)(A)(vi) public charity.