• Source: Trogonoptera brookiana

Trogonoptera brookiana, Rajah Brooke's birdwing, is a birdwing butterfly from the rainforests of the Thai-Malay Peninsula, Borneo, Natuna, Sumatra, and various small islands west of Sumatra (Banyak, Simeulue, Batu and Mentawai). The butterfly was named by the naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace in 1855, after James Brooke, the Rajah of Sarawak. The larval host plants are Aristolochia acuminata and A. foveolata. Adults sip flower nectar from plants such as Bauhinia. Rajah Brooke's birdwing is a protected species, listed under Appendix II of CITES, meaning that international export is restricted to those who have been granted a permit. It is the national butterfly of Malaysia.




Description


Both sexes resemble the more restricted relative, the Palawan birdwing, but males of Rajah Brooke's birdwing have more green to the hindwings. The wingspan of Rajah Brooke's birdwing is 15–17 cm (5.9–6.7 in). The wings of males are mainly black. Each forewing has seven tooth-shaped electric-green markings, while there is a relatively large electric-green patch on the hindwings. The head is bright red and the body is black with red markings. The wings of females are browner with prominent white flashes at the tips of the forewings and at the base of the hindwings.




Taxonomy


Genus: Trogonoptera Rippon, 1890

Species: Trogonoptera brookiana Wallace, 1855
Subspecies: Trogonoptera brookiana brookiana (Wallace, 1855)
Form: Trogonoptera brookiana brookiana f. brookiana Wallace, 1855
Form: Trogonoptera brookiana brookiana f. julijae S.Hu, 2007
Subspecies: Trogonoptera brookiana toshikii Kobayashi, 1991
Subspecies: Trogonoptera brookiana akikoa Morita, 1994
Species: Trogonoptera trojana Honrath, 1886




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References



Goh, D (1994). "Life history of Trogonoptera brookiana albescens in Malaysia (Lepidoptera: Papilionidae)" (PDF). Tropical Leidoptera. 5 (1): 1–5.




Further reading



Phon, Chooi-Khim; Kirton, Laurence G.; Norma-Rashid, Yusoff (2019-08-13). "Trogonoptera brookiana mollumar d'Abrera, Doggett & Parker, 1976 (Lepidoptera: Papilionidae), a subspecies or a synonym?". European Journal of Taxonomy (544). doi:10.5852/ejt.2019.544. ISSN 2118-9773.
Han, Z. W.; Niu, S. C.; Shang, C. H.; Liu, Z. N.; Ren, L. Q. (2012). "Light trapping structures in wing scales of butterfly Trogonoptera brookiana". Nanoscale. 4 (9): 2879–2883. Bibcode:2012Nanos...4.2879H. doi:10.1039/c2nr12059c. PMID 22374349.
Wilts, B.; Giraldo, M. A.; Stavegna, D. G. (2016). "Unique wing scale photonics of male Rajah Brooke's birdwing butterflies". Frontiers in Zoology. 13 (36): 36. doi:10.1186/s12983-016-0168-7. PMC 4983073. PMID 27525030.

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• Daftar tumbuhan dan satwa dilindungi di Indonesia
• Troides hypolitus
• Ornithoptera goliath
• Ornithoptera croesus
• Kupu-kupu sayap-burung Obi
• Ornithoptera chimaera
• Troides cuneifera
• Troides helena
• Trogonoptera brookiana
• Trogonoptera trojana
• Trogonoptera
• Birdwing
• James Brooke
• Perdana Botanical Gardens
• Rajah (disambiguation)
• Aristolochia
• Troidini
• Ornithoptera victoriae