- Source: Troides prattorum
Troides prattorum, the Buru Opalescent Birdwing, is a species of butterfly in the family Papilionidae. It is endemic to Buru in the Maluku Islands of Indonesia.
It is commercially bred, but supplies of this butterfly are sporadic, so it is still very rare in collections.
Related species
Troides prattorum is a member of the Troides aeacus species group. The members of this clade are:
Troides aeacus C. & R. Felder, 1860
Troides magellanus (C. & R. Felder, 1862)
Troides minos (Cramer, [1779])
Troides rhadamantus (Lucas, 1835)
Troides dohertyi (Rippon, 1893)
Troides prattorum (Joicey & Talbot, 1922)
References
ARKive Photos and more information
Ohya, Takashi,1980) Troides prattorum. Rhopalocerists' Magazine 4(4):5-10, plate.
Kurt Rumbucher; Béla von Knötgen, 1999 Part.6, Papilionidae. 3, Troides. 1 aeacus- group in Erich Bauer and Thomas Frankenbach Eds. Butterflies of the World Keltern: Goecke & Evers 1999. ISBN 978-3-931374-72-3
External links
Butterflycorner Images from Naturhistorisches Museum Wien (English/German)
Tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests. Buru Ecoregion
Kata Kunci Pencarian:
- Troides hypolitus
- Troides cuneifera
- Troides helena
- Daftar tumbuhan dan satwa dilindungi di Indonesia
- Ornithoptera goliath
- Ornithoptera chimaera
- Ornithoptera croesus
- Kupu-kupu sayap-burung Obi
- Troides prattorum
- Troides aeacus
- Troides
- Troides magellanus
- Troides helena
- Troides rhadamantus
- Troides minos
- Troides darsius
- Troides dohertyi
- Birdwing
