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Troides criton

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Family
  
Papilionidae

Scientific name
  
Troides criton

Rank
  
Species

Class
  
Insecta

Genus
  
Troides

Phylum
  
Arthropoda

Order
  
Butterflies and moths

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Similar
  
Troides riedeli, Troides plato, Troides vandepolli, Troides miranda, Troides haliphron

Troides criton, the Criton birdwing, is a birdwing butterfly found on the islands of Morotai, Halmahera, Bacan, Ternate and Obi in Indonesia.

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Description

For terms see External morphology of Lepidoptera.

Troides criton is sexually dimorphic.

Male: The ground color 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

    • 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

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