TAXONOMY AND SPECIES
TAXONOMY AND SPECIES LIST WITH COLOR PICTURES FOR EACH SPECIES ( 20)
Familia: Papilionidae
Subfamilia: Papilioninae
Tribus: Troidini
Subtribus: Troidina
Genus: Ornithoptera
Subgenus: Aetheoptera
Species: Ornithoptera victoriae
subspecies: 1.Ornithoptera victoriae victoriae (Gray, 1856)
f.loc. Ornithoptera victoriae victoriae (Gray, 1856)
f.loc. Ornithoptera victoriae archeri (Calderara, 1984)
f.loc. Ornithoptera victoriae epiphanes (Salvin, 1888)
f.loc. Ornithoptera victoriae isabellae (Rothschild & Jordan, 1901)
f.loc. Ornithoptera victoriae reginae (Salvin, 1888)
f.loc. Ornithoptera victoriae regis (Rothschild, 1895)
2.Ornithoptera victoriae rubianus (Morita, 2000)
3.Ornithoptera victoriae maramasikensis (Guérin-Méneville,1830)
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Genus: Ornithoptera
Subgenus: Ornithoptera
Species: Ornithoptera croesus
Subspecies: 1.Ornithoptera croesus croesus (Wallace, 1859)
f.loc. O.croesus croesus croesus (wallace,1859)
f.loc. O.croesus croesus helios (Kobayashi & Hayami, 1992)
f.loc. O.croesus croesus wallacei (Deslisle, 1993)
2.Ornithoptera croesus flammaeus (Niepelt, 1931)
3.Ornithoptera croesus lydius (C.Felder & R.Felder, 1865)
4.Ornithoptera croesus nigrocincta (Rousseau-Decelle,1935)
5.Ornithoptera croesus sananensis (Tsukada & Nishiyama,1980)
6.Ornithoptera croesus toeantei (parrott & Schmid, 1984)
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genus: Ornithoptera
subgenus: Ornithoptera
Species: Ornithoptera priamus
subspecies: 1.Ornithoptera priamus priamus (Linnaeus, 1758)
2.Ornithoptera priamus admiralitatis (Rothschild, 1915)
3.Ornithoptera priamus albireo (Kobayashi & Hayani, 1987)
4.Ornithoptera priamus arruana ( C.&R.Felder, 1859)
5.Ornithoptera priamus boisduvali (Montrouzier, 1856)
6.Ornithoptera priamus bornemanni (Pagenstecher, 1894)
7.Ornithoptera priamus caelestis (Rothschild, 1898)
8.ornithoptera priamus demophanes (Frühstorfer, 1913)
9.Ornithoptera priamus euphorion (Gray, 1853)
10.Ornithoptera priamus gebeensis (parrott, 1990)
11.Ornithoptera priamus hecuba (Röber, 1891)
12.Ornithoptera priamus impensus (Parrott, 1990)
13.Ornithoptera priamus kasandra (Kobayashi, 1994)
14.Ornithoptera priamus macalpinei (Moulds, 1974)
15.Ornithoptera priamus miokensis (Ribbe, 1898)
16.Ornithoptera priamus poseidon (Doubleday, 1847
17.Ornithoptera priamus pronomus (Gay, 1853)
18.Ornithoptera priamus richmondia (Gray, 1853)
19.Ornithoptera priamus teucrus ( Joicey & Talbot, 1916)
20.Ornithoptera priamus urvillianus (Guérin-Méneville, 1830)
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Genus: Ornithoptera
Subgenus: Schoenbergia
Species: Ornithoptera goliath (Oberthür, 1888)
subspecies: 1.Ornithoptera goliath goliath (Oberthür,1888)
2.Ornithoptera goliath procus (Rothschild, 1914)
3.Ornithoptera goliath atlas (Rothschild, 1908)
4.Ornithoptera goliath naturalis (Attal, 2019)
5.Ornithoptera goliath samson (Niepelt, 1913)
6.Ornithoptera goliath sorongensis (Morita & Surgiyama,1998)
7.Ornithoptera goliath supremus (Röber, 1896)
8.Ornithoptera goliath ukihidei (Hanafusa,1994)
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Genus:Ornithoptera
Subgenus: Schoenbergia
Species:Ornithoptera tithonus
subspecies: 1.Ornithoptera tithonus tithonus
2.Ornithoptera tithonus cytherea
3.Ornithoptera tithonus makikoae
4.Ornithoptera tithonus waiuensis
5.Ornithoptera tithonus dominici
6.ornithoptera tthonus misresiana
7.ornithoptera tithonus misoolana
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subgenus:Schoenbergia
Species: Ornithoptera chimaera
subspecies: 1. Ornithoptera chimaera chimaera (Rothschild, 1904)
f.loc. Ornithoptera chimaera chimaera (Rothschild, 1904)
f.loc. Ornithoptera chimaera charybdis ( Van Eecke, 1915)
f.loc. Ornithoptera chimaera flavidior (Rothschild, 1913)
f.loc. Ornithoptera chimaera dracaena (Joicey & Talbot, 1916)
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Subgenus: Schoenbergia
Species: Ornithoptera tithonus (De Haan, 1840)
subspecies: 1. Ornithoptera tithonus tithonus (De Haan, 184)
f.loc. Ornithoptera tithonus dominici (Schäffler, 1999)
f.loc. Ornithoptera tithonus elisabethae (Schäffler, 2006)
f.loc. Ornithoptera tithonus misoolana (Deslisle, 1985)
f.loc. Ornithoptera tithonus misresiana (Joicey&Noakes, 1916)
f.loc. Ornithoptera tithonus waiguensis ( )
f.loc. Ornithoptera tithonus wasiorensis (Deslisle, 2007)
2.Ornithoptera tithonus cytherea (Kobayashi & Koiwaya, 1980)
3.Ornithoptera tithonus makikoae (Morita, 1988)
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Subgenus: Schoenbergia
Species: Ornithoptera meriodionalis
Subspecies: 1. Ornithoptera meridionalis meridionalis (Rothschild, 1897)
2. Ornithoptera meridinalis tarungarensis (Joicey & Talbot, 1927)
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subgenus: ornithoptera
Species: Ornithoptera rothschildi
Subspecies: 1.Ornithoptera rothschildi (Kenrick, 1911)
2.Ornithoptera akakeae (natural hybrid)
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subgenus: Ornithoptera
Species: Ornithoptera aesacus
Subspecies: Ornithoptera aesacus aesacus (Ney, 1903)
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Genus: Ornithoptera
Subgenus: Straatmana
Species: Ornithoptera alexandrae (Rothschild, 1907)
subspecies: 1.Ornithoptera alexandrae alexandrae
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ORNITHOPTERA *
(*) Most specimens pictures and data comes from my own collection and from friend entomologists, who I bought many butterflies from. Contacts on request. Further sources of information and references:
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- Boisduval In: M. J. Dumont d'Urville
- Deslisle, G.Straatmania: A replacement name for the subgenus Zeunera Deslisle 2001
- Deslisle, G. A new local form of Ornithoptera (Schoenbergia)ssp. t. tithonus de Haan, 1840
- Deslisle, G.&Sclavo, J.P. New individual forms of the genus Ornithoptera Boisduval, 1832
- Deslisle, G.&Sclavo, J.P. Outstanding Birdwing Butterflies. Volume 1: 1–813.
- Deslisle, G.&Sclavo, J.P. Outstanding Birdwing Butterflies. Volume 2: 814–1642.
- Hanafusa, H. On a new subspecies of Ornithoptera goliath.
- Haugum, J.&Low, A.M. A monograph of the birdwing butterflies. Vol. 1, part 1. Introduction, Ornithoptera
- (Aetheoptera). Scandinavian Science Press Ltd., Denmark.
- von Knötgen, B. Eine extreme Variante des Vogelflüglers Ornithoptera (Ornithoptera) priamus urvillianus
- Schäffler, O. Papilionidae VI, Ornithopthera in Bauer & Frankenbach, Butterflies of the World. part 12.
- So, H.&Sato, S. A new subspecies of Ornithoptera paradisea Staudinger, 1893 (Lepidoptera, Papilionidae).Lepidopteral society of Japan.
- Hübner, J.Verzeichniß bekannter Schmettlinge 2–11: 17
- Okano,M&J,Ohkurat, 1979: The geographical races of Troides minos (Cramer)
- Rumbucher, K.& Schäffler, O. Butterflies of the world 19: Papilionidae X. Troides III. haliphron-species gr.
- Rumbucher, K.& Schäffler, O. Butterflies of the world 21: Papilionidae XI. Troides IV. helena-group.