Troides plateni

Troides plateni

Taxobox
name = Dr. Platens Birdwing


image_width = 250px
image_caption = Troides plateni Male, upperside. Palawan
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Arthropoda
classis = Insecta
ordo = Lepidoptera
familia = Papilionidae
genus = "Troides"
species = "T. plateni"
binomial = "Troides plateni"
binomial_authority = Staudinger, 1889

Troides plateni is a birdwing butterfly endemic to Palawan. Balabac, Dumaran and the Calamianes. It is named for Dr. Platen.

Habitat and conservation

"Troides plateni" is found mainly in wooded habitats.The larval foodplant is Aristolochia tagala (Aristolochiaceae). It is protected by the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES).

Taxonomic position

The taxonomic relationship between "T. rhadamantus rhadamantus", T. rhadamantus plateni and T. dohertyi is uncertain. Haugum & Low (1985) rank "plateni" and "dohertyi" as a subspecies of "T. rhadamantus". Tsukada & Nishiyama, 1980, 1982) Ohya (1983) rank plateni as a species.


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