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''Trogonoptera brookiana'', Rajah Brooke's birdwing, is a
Rajah Brooke’s birdwing.
Accessed 20 May 2012 The butterfly was named by the naturalistButterflies of Malaysia
Accessed 20 May 2012
Trogonoptera brookiana (Raja Brooke's Birdwing).
Accessed 20 May 2012 The wings of males are mainly black. Each forewing has seven tooth-shaped electric-green markings, while there is a relatively large electric-green patch on the hindwings. The head is bright red and the body is black with red markings. The wings of females are browner with prominent white flashes at the tips of the forewings and at the base of the hindwings.
File:TrogonopteraBrookeanaRippon.jpg, Males from ''Icones Ornithopterorum'' volume 2
File:Illustrations of new species of exotic butterflies Ornithoptera & Papilio.jpg, Male (bottom)
birdwing
Birdwings are butterflies in the swallowtail family, that belong to the genera ''Trogonoptera'', ''Troides'', and ''Ornithoptera''. Most recent authorities recognise 36 species, however, this is debated, and some authorities include additional ...
butterfly from the rainforests of the Thai-Malay Peninsula, Borneo, Natuna, Sumatra
Sumatra is one of the Sunda Islands of western Indonesia. It is the largest island that is fully within Indonesian territory, as well as the sixth-largest island in the world at 473,481 km2 (182,812 mi.2), not including adjacent i ...
, and various small islands west of Sumatra ( Banyak, Simeulue, Batu and Mentawai).ARKivRajah Brooke’s birdwing.
Accessed 20 May 2012 The butterfly was named by the naturalist
Alfred Russel Wallace
Alfred Russel Wallace (8 January 1823 – 7 November 1913) was a British naturalist, explorer, geographer, anthropologist, biologist and illustrator. He is best known for independently conceiving the theory of evolution through natural se ...
in 1855, after James Brooke, the Rajah of Sarawak. The larval host plants are ''Aristolochia acuminata
''Aristolochia acuminata'', the native Dutchman's pipe or Indian birthwort is a poisonous perennial vine that is endemic to Asia and Malesia, New Guinea and the Solomon Islands and northern Australia.
Description
''Aristolochia acuminata'' is an ...
'' and '' A. foveolata''. Adults sip flower nectar from plants such as '' Bauhinia''. Rajah Brooke's birdwing is a protected species, listed under Appendix II
CITES (shorter name for the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora, also known as the Washington Convention) is a multilateral treaty to protect endangered plants and animals from the threats of interna ...
of CITES, meaning that international export is restricted to those who have been granted a permit. It is the national butterfly of Malaysia.Accessed 20 May 2012
Description
Both sexes resemble the more restricted relative, thePalawan birdwing
''Trogonoptera trojana'', the Palawan birdwing or triangle birdwing, is a birdwing butterfly of the family Papilionidae. It is endemic to Palawan in the Philippines. It is one of only two species in its genus, the other being the more widespread ...
, but males of Rajah Brooke's birdwing have more green to the hindwings. The wingspan of Rajah Brooke's birdwing is .Butterfly CornerTrogonoptera brookiana (Raja Brooke's Birdwing).
Accessed 20 May 2012 The wings of males are mainly black. Each forewing has seven tooth-shaped electric-green markings, while there is a relatively large electric-green patch on the hindwings. The head is bright red and the body is black with red markings. The wings of females are browner with prominent white flashes at the tips of the forewings and at the base of the hindwings.
Taxonomy
Genus: ''Trogonoptera
''Trogonoptera'' is a genus of birdwing butterflies from the rainforests of the Thai-Malay Peninsula, Borneo, Natuna, Sumatra, Palawan, and various small islands west of Sumatra. Their large size and stunning colors makes them highly prized by c ...
'' Rippon, 1890
:Species: ''Trogonoptera brookiana'' Wallace
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, 1855
::Subspecies: ''Trogonoptera brookiana brookiana'' (Wallace, 1855)
:::Form: ''Trogonoptera brookiana brookiana'' f. ''brookiana'' Wallace, 1855
:::Form: ''Trogonoptera brookiana brookiana'' f. ''julijae'' S.Hu, 2007
::Subspecies: ''Trogonoptera brookiana toshikii'' Kobayashi, 1991
::Subspecies: ''Trogonoptera brookiana akikoa'' Morita, 1994
:Species: ''Trogonoptera trojana'' Honrath
Eduard Gustav Honrath (11 August 1837, in Coblenz – 19 April 1893, in Berlin) was a German entomologist who specialised in Lepidoptera, particularly '' Parnassius''.
Honrath was a well-known art dealer in Berlin. Among his entomological achiev ...
, 1886
Illustrations
References
*Further reading
* * * {{Taxonbar, from=Q139736 Papilionidae Butterflies of Indochina Butterflies of Borneo Butterflies of Indonesia Butterflies of Malaysia Butterflies described in 1855