Troides staudingeri

Troides staudingeri is a birdwing butterfly in the genus Troides in the family Papilionidae. It is known from Leti Island, Moa Island, Kisar Island, Babar Island and Wetar Island.

Subspecies

• T. s. staudingeri (Sermata, Luang, Babar)
• T. s. iris (Röber, 1888) (Leti Group)
• T. s. ariadne Rothschild, 1908 (Islands of Romang Strait)
• T. s. heptanonius Fruhstorfer, 1913 (Damar Island)
• T. s. ikarus Fruhstorfer, 1904 (Tanimbar, Selaru, Yamdena, Larat)
• T. s. rikyu Arima & Morimoto, 1991 (Teun, Nila, Serua)

Biology

Like T. haliphron, T. staudingeri is a lowland species.

Biogeographic realm

Australasian realm.

Etymology

The specific name staudingeri honours the German entomologist Otto Staudinger.

Taxonomy

Previously considered to be a subspecies of haliphron, staudingeri was raised to a full species by Haugum and Low on the basis of differences in the genitali. This was accepted by Hancock.

Related species

Troides staudingeri 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

• Collins, N. Mark; Morris, Michael G. (1985). Threatened Swallowtail Butterflies of the World: The IUCN Red Data Book. Gland & Cambridge: IUCN. ISBN 978-2-88032-603-6 – via Biodiversity Heritage Library.
• D'Abrera, B. (1975) Birdwing Butterflies of the World. Country Life Books, London.
• Haugum, J. & Low, A.M. 1978–1985. A Monograph of the Birdwing Butterflies. 2 volumes. Scandinavian Press, Klampenborg; 663 pp.
• Hancock, D.L. (1983). Classification of the Papilionidae (Lepidoptera): a phylogenetic approach. Smithersia 2: 1-48.
• Kurt Rumbucher and Oliver Schäffler, 2004 Part 19, Papilionidae X. Troides III. in Erich Bauer and Thomas Frankenbach Eds. Butterflies of the World. Keltern: Goecke & Evers ISBN 978-3-937783-02-4

Other literature at Troides

External links

• The World of Birdwing Butterflies
• BOLD Consortium for the Barcode of Life images, molecular information.
• Timor and Wetar Deciduous Forests Ecoregion