Troidini


Troidini is a tribe of swallowtail butterflies that consists of some 135 species in 12 genera. Members of this tribe are superlatively large among butterflies and are often strikingly coloured.

Genera

The tribe consists of the following genera:AtrophaneuraBattusByasaCressidaEuryadesLosariaOrnithopteraPachlioptaParidesPharmacophagusTrogonoptera

Ecology

Members of this tribe feed on poisonous pipevine plants, typically of the genus Aristolochia, as larvae. As a result, they themselves are poisonous and unpalatable to predators, like the pipevine swallowtail, and are mimicked by other butterflies.