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Troides hypolitus (Birdwing butterfly)

Synonyms: Ornithoptera hippolytus var. celebensis; Ornithoptera hippolytus var. sulaensis; Ripponia hypolitus; Ripponia hypolitus caelicola; Troides hypolitus cellularis

Wikipedia Abstract

Troides hypolitus, the Rippon's birdwing, is a birdwing butterfly endemic to the Moluccas and Sulawesi. It is not significantly threatened, but it is protected. Troides hypolitus is a butterfly from Australasia/Indomalaya ecozone. The first description was in 1775 by Pieter Cramer. This butterfly is a member of the family Papilionidae. Troides hypolitus is black. It has a chain of golden spots on the hindwings. The females are dark brown and they are bigger than the males.
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Infraspecies

Troides hypolitus antiopa
Troides hypolitus hypolitus

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