Troides criton

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Troides criton is sexually dimorphic.

Male: The ground colour of the forewings is black. A large discal golden area has veins are black veins. The underside is very similar.

Female: In the female some of the veins are bordered by white. There is a chain of internervular black spots in the golden area. The underside is very similar.

In both sexes the abdomen is brown with a yellow underside. The head and thorax are black and the underside of thorax has red hair.

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• Troides criton criton Sulawesi, Moluccas, Morotai, Ternate, Tidore, Halmahera, Kasiruta, Sula Islands, Bacan
• Troides criton critonides (Fruhstorfer, 1903) Obi Islands Not constantly different from criton.Male: forewing beneath often with white vein-stripes (in 4 of our 7 males (Fruhstorfers) the cell-spot of the hindwing mostly less obliquely truncate than in criton. In the female the spot placed before the 1st radial of the hindwing always small, no yellow or cream-coloured discal spot before the subcostal; the black discal spots completely merged together, so that above only quite small yellow submarginal spots are present.

Troides criton is a member of the Troides haliphron species group. The members of this clade are:

• Troides haliphron (Boisduval, 1836)
• Troides darsius (Gray, [1853])
• Troides vandepolli (Snellen, 1890)
• Troides criton (C. & R. Felder, 1860)
• Troides riedeli (Kirsch, 1885)
• Troides plato (Wallace, 1865)
• Troides staudingeri (Röber, 1888)

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• Kurt Rumbucher and Oliver Schäffler (2004). Part 19, Papilionidae X. Troides III. in Erich Bauer and Thomas Frankenbach Eds. Butterflies of the World. Keltern: Goecke & Evers {{ISBN|978-3-937783-02-4}}

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• [http://en.butterflycorner.net/Troides-criton.957.0.html Butterflycorner] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120909052839/http://en.butterflycorner.net/Troides-criton.957.0.html |date=2012-09-09 }} Images from Naturhistorisches Museum Wien (English/German)
• [http://www.nagypal.net/ttcriton.htm Nagypal]
• [http://worldwildlife.org/ecoregions/aa0106 Halmahera Rain Forests Ecoregion]
• [http://worldwildlife.org/ecoregions/aa0123 Sulawesi Lowland Rain Forests]

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Criton

Category:Butterflies of Indonesia

Category:Endemic fauna of Indonesia

Category:Fauna of Bali

Category:Fauna of the Maluku Islands

Category:Fauna of Halmahera

Category:Fauna of Ternate

Category:Taxa named by Cajetan von Felder

Category:Butterflies described in 1860

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