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Troides cuneifera (Oberthür, 1879)

Самец Troides cuneifera

Taxonomy

class Insecta → subclass Pterygota → infraclass Neoptera → superorder Holometabola → order Lepidoptera → superfamily Papilionoidea → family Papilionidae → subfamily Papilioninae → tribe Troidini → genus Troides → species Troides cuneifera

Species name(s)

Troides cuneifera (Oberthür, 1879) = Troides amphrysus cuneifer = Troides cuneifer.

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Expansion

Zoogeographical regions

Indo-Malayan.

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Habitus and Differences from alike species

Wingspan 135-160 mm. Similar to T. amphrysus, but thorax beneath with second and third segment reddened; HW (hind - wing) in male has strongly tinted with green, HW in female having submarginal spots separated from marginal spots whereas those of the former species usually conjoined. It is usually confined to high elevation above 750 meters. [144]. Svetlana Shchavelina.

Subspecies Troides cuneifera

T. c. cuneifera (Oberthür, 1879).
T. c. paeninsulae (Pendlebury, 1936).
T. c. sumatranus (Hagen, 1894).

Authors

Initial species uploading to the site: Peter Khramov.

Photos: Evgeny Komarov, Alex Dumchus.

Text data: Svetlana Shchavelina.

Main characteristics formalization: Peter Khramov.

References

[85] Lepidoptera.ru (Insecta.pro previous version / cтарая версия Insecta.pro)
[144] Pisuth Ek-Amnuay "Butterflies of Thailand". 2nd Revised edition. Bangkok, 2012

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Other species Troides

Troides aeacus C. & R. Felder, 1860

Troides amphrysus (Cramer, [1779])

Troides andromache (Staudinger, 1892)

Troides criton (C. & R. Felder, 1860)

Troides darsius (Gray, [1853])

Troides dohertyi (Rippon, 1893)

Troides haliphron (Boisduval, 1836)

Troides helena (Linnaeus, 1758)

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Troides magellanus (C. & R. Felder, 1862)

Troides minos (Cramer, [1779])

Troides miranda (Butler, 1869)

Troides oblongomaculatus (Goeze, 1779)

Troides plateni Staudinger, 1888

Troides plato (Wallace, 1865)

Troides prattorum Joicey & Talbot, 1922

Troides rhadamantus Lucas, 1835

Troides riedeli (Kirsch, 1885)

Troides staudingeri (Röber, 1888)

Troides vandepolli (Snellen, 1890)

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