Troides riedeli
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| Species: | T. riedeli
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| Troides riedeli Kirsch, 1885
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Troides riedeli, the Riedel's birdwing, is a birdwing butterfly endemic to the Tanimbar Islands, part of the Maluku Islands archipelago in Indonesia.
Very little is known of the life history and distribution.
Ecozone
Related species
Troides riedeli is a member of the Troides haliphron species group. The members of this clade are:
- Troides haliphron (Boisduval, 1836)
- Troides darsius (Gray, [1853])
- Troides vandepolli (Snellen, 1890)
- Troides criton (C. & R. Felder, 1860)
- Troides riedeli (Kirsch, 1885)
- Troides plato (Wallace, 1865)
- Troides staudingeri (Röber, 1888)
References
- Collins, N. Mark; Morris, Michael G. (1985). Threatened Swallowtail Butterflies of the World: The IUCN Red Data Book. Gland & Cambridge: IUCN. ISBN 978-2-88032-603-6.
- Kurt Rumbucher and Oliver Schäffler (2004). Part 19, Papilionidae X. Troides III. in Erich Bauer and Thomas Frankenbach Eds. Butterflies of the World. Keltern: Goecke & Evers ISBN 978-3-937783-02-4
- Tsukada, E. and Nishiyama, Y. (1982). Butterflies of the South East Asian Islands. Vol. I Papilionidae. (transl. K. Morishita). Plapac Co. Ltd., Tokyo. 457 pp.
External links
Wikispecies has information related to Troides riedeli.
- Troides riedeli at Nagypal
- Butterflycorner Images from Naturhistorisches Museum Wien (English/German)
- Banda Sea Islands Moist Deciduous Forests
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