Troides staudingeri


Troides staudingeri is a birdwing butterfly in the genus Troides in the family Papilionidae. It is known from Leti Island, Moa [Island, Indonesia|Moa Island], Kisar Island, Babar Island and Wetar Island.

Description

staudingeri Rob. Male: forewing similar to that of iris, beneath with purer white stripes; hindwing almost as in naias, but always with 6 gold discal spots round the cell and the cell-spot more transversely truncate; the harpe similar to that of iris, almost symmetrical, whilst in the other haliphron-forms,
it is almost hook-shaped. Female with broader vein-streaks on the forewing than in iris ; on the hindwing in addition to the cell-spot 6 gold spots, of which the first and last are much larger than in iris and ariadne ; the median veins at least beneath accompanied by yellow-grey stripes, similar stripes or small submarginal spots also often on the radials. Collar and breast in male and female red. Loeang, Dammer and Babber.

Subspecies

  • T. s. staudingeri
  • T. s. iris
  • T. s. ariadne Rothschild, 1908
  • T. s. heptanonius Fruhstorfer, 1913
  • T. s. ikarus Fruhstorfer, 1904 The male not different from staudingeri, the vein-stripes of the forewing beneath and also the edging of the cell, however, are longer and broader in some specimens. This grey-white scaling in the female apparently always more extended than in staudingeri. Selaru, Timor Laut Islands.
  • T. s. rikyu Arima & Morimoto, 1991

Biology

Like T. haliphron, T. staudingeri is a lowland species.

Biogeographic realm

Etymology

The specific name staudingeri honours the German entomologist Otto Staudinger.

Taxonomy

Previously considered to be a subspecies of haliphron, staudingeri was raised to a full species by Haugum and Low on the basis of differences in the genitali. This was accepted by Hancock.

Related species

Troides staudingeri is a member of the Troides haliphron species group. The members of this clade are: