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Ornithoptera richmondia (Richmond bird-wing butterfly)

Synonyms: Ornithoptera priamus richmondia; Papilio richmondia

Wikipedia Abstract

Ornithoptera richmondia, the Richmond birdwing, is a species of birdwing butterfly that is endemic to Australia. It is the second smallest of the birdwing species, the smallest being Ornithoptera meridionalis.
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Attributes

Wing Span [1]  5 inches (.132 m)

Prey / Diet

Aristolochia acuminata (Indian birthwort)[2]
Aristolochia elegans (elegant dutchman's pipe)[2]
Aristolochia laheyana[3]
Aristolochia praevenosa[3]

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Gynther, I., Sands, D., & Grimshaw, P. RICHMOND BIRDWING BUTTERFLY
♦ 2Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
♦ 3Species Interactions of Australia Database, Atlas of Living Australia, Version ala-csv-2012-11-19
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0