TAXONOMY AND SPECIES
ORNITHOPTERA HYBRIDS and GYNANDROMORPHS
1. ORNITHOPTERA HYBRIDS
O. goliath procus F
x
O. priamus priamus M
O. goliath F
x
O. priamus poseidon M
O. goliath samson F
x
O. priamus poseidon M
O. goliath F
x
O. croesus lydius M
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Schoenbergia tithonus misresiana F
x
O. priamus M
Schoenbergia tithonus F
x
O. goliath M
Schoenbergia tithonus F
x
Ornithoptera goliath M
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O.tithonus F
x
O. rothschildi M
O. priamus euphorion F
x
O. priamus richmondia M
O. tithonus
x
O. priamus
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O. priamus gebeensis F
x
Troides oblongomaculatus M
Troides helena helena F
x
O. priamus teucrus M
O. priamus F
x
Troides helena M
O. priamus poseidon
x
Troides oblongomaculatus papuensis (PNG)
O. priamus poseidon
x
Troides hypolitus (Sulawesi)
2. NATURAL ORNITHOPTERA HYBRIDS
A. Ornithoptera akakeae (kobayashi&Koiwaya, 1978)
O. AKAKEAE
O.rothschildi
x
O. p.poseidon
B. Ornithoptera allotei ( Rothschild, 1914 )
O. ALLOTEI
O. victoriae
x
O. priamus urvillianus
HOLOTYPES:
ORNITHOPTERA ALLOTEI was described by Sir Walter Rothschild in 1914 as a species, despite the assertion by its real discoverer,Abbé Allotte, a priest at the Buin Mission, Bougainville Island, that it was a natural hybrid.
It was originally placed in the genus Troides.
The female was described by H.M. Peebles and W. Schassmann in 1917.
Schmid (1970), McAlpine (1970) and Haugum & Low (1978) all held the hybrid theory but the final proof of O. allotei being a natural hybrid was made by Ramon Straatman ( Jan Haugum in 'Papilio International'(1990)).
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3. GYNANDROMORPH
