Troides cuneifera

Taxobox
name = Troides cuneifera
status =

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image_caption = Male
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Arthropoda
classis = Insecta
ordo = Lepidoptera
familia = Papilionidae
genus = "Troides"
species = "T. cuneifera"
binomial = "Troides cuneifera"
binomial_authority = Oberthür, 1879

"Troides cuneifera" is a beautiful and large butterfly belonging to the Swallowtail (Papilionidae family) found in South Thailand, Malaya , Sumatra , Java and Borneo.

Being very similar to "Troides amphrysus" the butterfly was originally described as Ornithoptera amphrisiusvar. cuneifera. The first to separate the two species was Pieter Cornelius Tobias Snellen in 1889.It is a mountain species (300 m in Malaya up to 2000 m in Java).The species is on decline in Sumatra due to human activities, such as increased cultivation.

"Troides cuneifera tantalus" remains one of the great mysteries of the birdwings. The taxon is known from only one male and one female. The specimens were claimed to originate from Kala Bula Hills or Kala Bala Hills, North Borneo.

References

Haugum, J. & Low, A.M. (1983). "A Monograph of the Birdwing Butterflies. The systematics of Ornithoptera,Troides and related genera". Vol. 2, Part 2. Troides; amphrysus and haliphron groups. Klampenborg, Denmark : Scandinavian Science Press pp. 105-204

External Links

* [http://www.nagypal.net/ttcuneif.htm Ngypal]