Troidini

Taxobox
name = Troidini

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image_caption = "Troides aeacus"
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Arthropoda
classis = Insecta
ordo = Lepidoptera
familia = Papilionidae
subfamilia = Papilioninae
tribus = Troidini
subdivision_ranks = Genera
subdivision =
*"Battus"
*"Parides"
*"Troides"
*"Euryades"
*"Cressida"
*"Atrophaneura"
*"Ornithoptera"
*"Trogonoptera"

Troidini is the tribe of "Aristolochia" swallowtails that includes the genus "Battus".

It consists of some 135 species worldwide and 3 species that occur North America. Members of this tribe feed on poisonous pipevine plants (genus "Aristolochia"). As a result, they are poisonous themselves, taste extremely bad to predators (Pinheiro 1986), and are mimicked by other butterflies (Scott 1986).

References

* Pinheiro, Carlos E. G. (1996): Palatablility and escaping ability in Neotropical butterflies: tests with wild kingbirds ("Tyrannus melancholicus", Tyrannidae). "Biol. J. Linn. Soc." 59(4): 351–365. [http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/ap/bj/1996/00000059/00000004/art00069 HTML abstract]

* Scott, James A. (1986): "The Butterflies of North America". Stanford University Press. ISBN 0-8047-1205-0