Troides riedeli

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Kingdom Animalia Order Lepidoptera Genus Troides Phylum Arthropoda		Class Insecta Family Papilionidae Scientific name Troides riedeli Rank Species

Similar Troides vandepolli, Troides criton, Troides plato, Troides miranda, Troides haliphron

Troides riedeli, or Riedel's birdwing, is a birdwing butterfly endemic to the Tanimbar Islands, part of the Maluku Islands archipelago in Indonesia.

Very little is known of the life history and distribution.

Ecozone

Australasian ecozone

Troides riedeli 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)

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