Biology:Troides prattorum
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Short description: Species of butterfly
| Buru opalescent birdwing | |
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| Troides prattorum plate by A.E.Pratt which accompanied the original description | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Papilionidae |
| Genus: | Troides |
| Species: | T. prattorum
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| Binomial name | |
| Troides prattorum (Joicey & Talbot,1922)
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Troides prattorum, the Buru Opalescent Birdwing, is a species of butterfly in the family Papilionidae. It is endemic to Buru in the Maluku Islands of Indonesia.
It is commercially bred, but supplies of this butterfly are sporadic, so it is still very rare in collections.[1]
Related species
Troides prattorum is a member of the Troides aeacus species group. The members of this clade are:
- Troides aeacus C. & R. Felder, 1860
- Troides magellanus (C. & R. Felder, 1862)
- Troides minos (Cramer, [1779])
- Troides rhadamantus (Lucas, 1835)
- Troides dohertyi (Rippon, 1893)
- Troides prattorum (Joicey & Talbot, 1922)
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Böhm, M. (2018). "Troides prattorum". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2018: e.T22315A91185935. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2018-1.RLTS.T22315A91185935.en. https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/22315/91185935. Retrieved 17 November 2021.
- ↑ "Appendices | CITES". https://cites.org/eng/app/appendices.php.
- ARKive Photos and more information
- Ohya, Takashi,1980) Troides prattorum. Rhopalocerists' Magazine 4(4):5-10, plate.
- Kurt Rumbucher; Béla von Knötgen, 1999 Part.6, Papilionidae. 3, Troides. 1 aeacus- group in Erich Bauer and Thomas Frankenbach Eds. Butterflies of the World Keltern: Goecke & Evers 1999. ISBN:978-3-931374-72-3
External links
- Butterflycorner Images from Naturhistorisches Museum Wien (English/German)
- Tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests. Buru Ecoregion
Wikidata ☰ Q3018896 entry
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