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Troides criton, the Criton birdwing, is a birdwing butterfly found on the islands of Morotai, Halmahera, Bali, Bacan, Ternate and Obi in Indonesia.
Description
Troides criton is sexually dimorphic.
Male: The ground colour of the forewings is black. A large discal golden area has veins are black veins. The underside is very similar.
Female: In the female some of the veins are bordered by white. There is a chain of internervular black spots in the golden area. The underside is very similar.
In both sexes the abdomen is brown with a yellow underside. The head and thorax are black and the underside of thorax has a red hair.
Subspecies
Troides criton criton Sulawesi, Moluccas, Morotai, Ternate, Tidore, Halmahera, Kasiruta, Sula Islands, Bacan
Troides criton critonides (Fruhstorfer, 1903) Obi Islands
Related species
Troides criton is a member of the Troides haliphron species group. The members of this clade are:
Troides haliphron (Boisduval, 1836)
Troides darsius (Gray, [1853])
Troides vandepolli (Snellen, 1890)
Troides criton (C. & R. Felder, 1860)
Troides riedeli (Kirsch, 1885)
Troides plato (Wallace, 1865)
Troides staudingeri (Röber, 1888)
References
D'Abrera, B. (1975). Birdwing Butterflies of the World. Country Life Books, London.
Collins, N. Mark; Morris, Michael G. (1985). Threatened Swallowtail Butterflies of the World: The IUCN Red Data Book. Gland & Cambridge: IUCN. ISBN 978-2-88032-603-6 – via Biodiversity Heritage Library.
Felder, C. & R. Felder (1865-1875). Rhopalocera. In Reise der Osterreichischen Fregatte "Novara" um die Erde in den Jahren 1857, 1858, 1859 unter den Befehlen Commodore B. von Wullerstorf-Urbair. Zoologischer Theil. Zweiter Band:Abtheilung. Wien: vi + 548 + [1] pp in 5 parts, 140 pls.
Haugum, J. & Low, A.M. (1978-1985). A Monograph of the Birdwing Butterflies. 2 volumes. Scandinavian Press, Klampenborg; 663 pp.
Kurt Rumbucher and Oliver Schäffler (2004). Part 19, Papilionidae X. Troides III. in Erich Bauer and Thomas Frankenbach Eds. Butterflies of the World. Keltern: Goecke & Evers ISBN 978-3-937783-02-4
External links
Butterflycorner Archived 2012-09-09 at the Wayback Machine Images from Naturhistorisches Museum Wien (English/German)
Nagypal
Halmahera Rain Forests Ecoregion
Sulawesi Lowland Rain Forests
Kata Kunci Pencarian:
- Troides hypolitus
- Troides helena
- Troides cuneifera
- Kupu-kupu di Indonesia
- Daftar tumbuhan dan satwa dilindungi di Indonesia
- Ornithoptera goliath
- Ornithoptera croesus
- Ornithoptera chimaera
- Kupu-kupu sayap-burung Obi
- Troides criton
- Troides
- Troides darsius
- Troides haliphron
- Troides rhadamantus
- Troides riedeli
- Troides vandepolli
- Troides helena
- Troides plato
- Troides staudingeri
