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Ornithoptera victoriae (Queen Victoria bird-wing butterfly)

Synonyms: Aetheoptera victoriae; Papilio victoriae; Troides victoriae

Wikipedia Abstract

Ornithoptera victoriae, the Queen Victoria's birdwing, is a birdwing butterfly of the family Papilionidae, found in the Solomon Islands and Papua New Guinea (Bougainville Island only). What was originally described as Ornithoptera allotei, is a supposed natural hybrid between Ornithoptera victoriae and Ornithoptera priamus urvillianus.
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Prey / Diet

Aristolochia acuminata (Indian birthwort)[1]

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Jorrit 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.
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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