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Troides plato

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Family
  
Papilionidae

Scientific name
  
Troides plato

Rank
  
Species

Class
  
Insecta

Genus
  
Troides

Phylum
  
Arthropoda

Order
  
Butterflies and moths

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Similar
  
Troides riedeli, Troides criton, Troides vandepolli, Troides miranda, Troides haliphron

Troides plato, the silver birdwing, is a birdwing butterfly endemic to Timor.

Contents

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.

Ecozone

Australasian ecozone.

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

    Troides plato Wikipedia
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