Ornithoptera meridionalis Rothschild, 1897

Taxonomy

class Insecta → subclass Pterygota → infraclass Neoptera → superorder Holometabola → order Lepidoptera → superfamily Papilionoidea → family Papilionidae → genus Ornithoptera → species Ornithoptera meridionalis

Species name(s)

Ornithoptera meridionalis Rothschild, 1897 = Troides meridionalis Rothschild, 1897 = Troides paradiseus meridionalis Rothschild, 1897 = Ornithoptera (Schoenbergia) meridionalis. [9, 85]

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Expansion

Zoogeographical regions

Indo-Malayan.

Subspecies of Ornithoptera meridionalis

Ornithoptera meridionalis meridionalis Rothschild, 1897. [85]
O. m. tarunggarensis Joicey & Talbot, 1927. [85]

Authors

Initial species uploading to the site: Peter Khramov.

Photo: Yuri Semejkin.

The species characteristics formalization: Peter Khramov.

References

[9] Tree of Life (funet.fi), 2012
[85] Lepidoptera species catalogue, Lepidoptera.ru, 2015

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Other species Ornithoptera

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Ornithoptera arfakensis Joicey & Noakes, 1916

Ornithoptera chimaera Rothschild, 1904

Ornithoptera croesus (Wallace, 1859)

Ornithoptera goliath Oberthür, 1888

Ornithoptera paradisea (Staudinger, 1893)

Ornithoptera priamus (Linnaeus, 1758)

Ornithoptera rothschildi Kenrick, 1911

Ornithoptera tithonus (de Haan, 1840)

Ornithoptera victoriae Gray, 1856

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