- Source: Troides plato
Troides plato, the silver birdwing, is a birdwing butterfly endemic to Timor.
Described forms are nychonia Jordan, 1908 (male), chitonia Jordan, 1908 (male), and delormei Le Moult, 1931 (female).
Taxonomy
Previously considered to be a subspecies of haliphron, plato was raised to a full species by Haugum and Low on the basis of differences in the genitalia.
Biogeographic realm
Australasian realm.
Related species
Troides plato 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
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.
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
Troides plato at Nagypal
Timor and Wetar Deciduous Forests
Kata Kunci Pencarian:
- Troides hypolitus
- Troides helena
- Troides cuneifera
- Kupu-kupu di Indonesia
- Daftar tumbuhan dan satwa dilindungi di Indonesia
- Ornithoptera croesus
- Ornithoptera goliath
- Ornithoptera chimaera
- Kupu-kupu sayap-burung Obi
- Troides plato
- Troides
- Troides darsius
- Troides haliphron
- Troides staudingeri
- Troides rhadamantus
- Troides riedeli
- Troides vandepolli
- Troides criton
- Troides aeacus
