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Troides plateni

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Dr. Platen's birdwing
Male, upperside, Palawan
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T. plateni
Binomial name
Troides plateni

Troides plateni, the Dr. Platen's birdwing, is a birdwing butterfly endemic to Palawan, Balabac, Dumaran, and the Calamian Islands in the Philippines. It is named for Dr. Carl Constantin Platen.

Habitat and conservation

As Pompeoptera Troides plateni in Robert Henry Fernando Rippon Icones Ornithopterorum (1898 to 1906)

Troides plateni is found mainly in wooded habitats. The larval food plant is Aristolochia tagala (Aristolochiaceae). It is protected by the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES).

Taxonomic position

The taxonomic relationship between T. rhadamantus rhadamantus, T. rhadamantus plateni and T. dohertyi is uncertain. Haugum & Low (1985) rank plateni and dohertyi as a subspecies of T. rhadamantus (Tsukada & Nishiyama, 1980, 1982). Ohya (1983) rank plateni as a species.

References

  • Ohya, T. 1983. Birdwing Butterflies. Kodansha, Tokyo.
  • Tsukada, E. & Nishiyama, Y. 1982. Papilionidae. In: Tsukada, E. (ed): Butterflies of the South East Asian Islands. Volume 1. Plapac Co., Tokyo
  • Jumalon, Julian N., 1970 Life history notes on Troides plateni of Palawan, Philippines. Philippine Scientist 7:35-38