• Source: Troidini

Troidini is a tribe of swallowtail butterflies that consists of some 135 species in 12 genera. Members of this tribe are superlatively large among butterflies (in terms of both wingspan and surface area) and are often strikingly coloured.




Genera


The tribe consists of the following genera:

Atrophaneura
Battus
Byasa
Cressida
Euryades
Losaria
Ornithoptera
Pachliopta
Parides
Pharmacophagus
Trogonoptera
Troides




Ecology


Members of this tribe feed on poisonous pipevine plants, typically of the genus Aristolochia, as larvae. As a result, they themselves are poisonous and unpalatable to predators (Pinheiro 1986), like the pipevine swallowtail, and are mimicked by other butterflies (Scott 1986).




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Citations


Pinheiro, Carlos E. G. (1996): Palatability and escaping ability in Neotropical butterflies: tests with wild kingbirds (Tyrannus melancholicus, Tyrannidae). Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 59(4): 351–365. HTML abstract
Scott, James A. (1986): The Butterflies of North America. Stanford University Press. ISBN 0-8047-1205-0




References

Kata Kunci Pencarian:

• Troides helena
• Ornithoptera croesus
• Ornithoptera goliath
• Troides hypolitus
• Kupu-kupu sayap-burung Obi
• Troides cuneifera
• Ornithoptera chimaera
• Daftar kupu-kupu Taiwan
• Troidini
• Swallowtail butterfly
• Osmeterium
• List of butterflies of Mexico
• Trogonoptera
• List of butterflies of India (Papilionidae)
• Ornithoptera
• List of butterflies of Taiwan
• List of butterflies of Madagascar
• Red-bodied swallowtail