Troides staudingeri
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Troides staudingeri is a birdwing
butterfly
in the genus
Troides in the papilionidae family
. It is known from Leti Island
, Moa Island, Kisar Island, Babar Island
and Wetar Island.
Birdwing
Birdwings are papilionid butterflies native to the Indian Subcontinent, mainland and archipelagic Southeast Asia and Australasia, and are usually regarded as belonging to three genera: Ornithoptera, Trogonoptera and Troides. Some authorities include additional genera...
butterfly
Butterfly
A butterfly is a mainly day-flying insect of the order Lepidoptera, which includes the butterflies and moths. Like other holometabolous insects, the butterfly's life cycle consists of four parts: egg, larva, pupa and adult. Most species are diurnal. Butterflies have large, often brightly coloured...
in the genus
Genus
In biology, a genus is a low-level taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms, which is an example of definition by genus and differentia...
Troides in the papilionidae family
Family (biology)
In biological classification, family is* a taxonomic rank. Other well-known ranks are life, domain, kingdom, phylum, class, order, genus, and species, with family fitting between order and genus. As for the other well-known ranks, there is the option of an immediately lower rank, indicated by the...
. It is known from Leti Island
Leti Island
The Leti Islands of Indonesia are part of the Maluku Islands, in southwest Maluku province. The main islands are Moa, Leti and Lakor. The Leti Islands form the Leti Moa Lakor and Moa Lakor subdistricts of the Maluku Barat Daya regency of Maluku province....
, Moa Island, Kisar Island, Babar Island
Babar Island
The Babar Islands are located in Maluku Province, Indonesia between latitudes 7 degrees 31 minutes South to 8 degrees 13 minutes South and from longitudes 129 degrees 30 minutes East to 130 degrees 05 minutes East...
and Wetar Island.
Subspecies
- T. s. staudingeri (Sermata, Luang, Babar)
- T. s. iris (Röber, 1888) (Leti Group)
- T. s. ariadne Rothschild, 1908 (Islands of Romang Strait)
- T. s. heptanonius Fruhstorfer, 1913 (Damar Island)
- T. s. ikarus Fruhstorfer, 1904 (Tanimbar, Selaru, Yamdena, Larat)
- T. s. rikyu Arima & Morimoto, 1991 (Teun, Nila, Serua)