Troides haliphron

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Troides haliphron is sexually dimorphic.

Male: The forewings are ground colour black. The veins are bordered by white shading. The hindwings are ground colour black. There is a golden band in the discal area of the wing. The veins are black and they cleave the golden area. The underside is similar.

Female: The female is larger than the male. The ground colour of the female is brown. The veins are bordered by white shading. There is a yellow area with dark veins on the hindwings. There is one chain of black spots is in the yellow area. The underside is similar.

The abdomen is dark brown, and the underside has yellow spots. Head and thorax are black. The nape has a red hair coat.

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Troides staudingeri has at times been considered a subspecies of Troides haliphron.

Subspecies celebensis - the status of this taxon is uncertain. It has been placed within Troides criton, and Troides oblongomaculatus. It may be a hybrid with Troides helena hephaestus.

A number of other subspecies have been described from different islands. They are:

• Troides haliphron celebensis - possibly central Celebes (see Taxonomy)
• Troides haliphron haliphron - South Celebes
• Troides haliphron naias - Sumba
• Troides haliphron socrates - Wetar and Sumbawa (probably a local form and not a subspecies)
• Troides haliphron selayarensis - Selayar Islands

The larva feeds on species Aristolochia.

Troides haliphron 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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• {{cite book |last1=Collins |first1=N. Mark |last2=Morris |first2=Michael G. |date=1985 |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/98674#page/7/mode/1up |title=Threatened Swallowtail Butterflies of the World: The IUCN Red Data Book |publisher=IUCN |location=Gland & Cambridge |isbn=978-2-88032-603-6 |via=Biodiversity Heritage Library}}
• D'Abrera, B. (1975) Birdwing Butterflies of the World. Country Life Books, London.
• Haugum, J. & Low, A.M. 1978-1985. A Monograph of the Birdwing Butterflies. 2 volumes. Scandinavian Press, Klampenborg; 663 pp.
• 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://www.nagypal.net/tthaliph.htm Troides haliphron at Ngypal]
• [http://en.butterflycorner.net/Troides-haliphron.958.0.html Butterflycorner.net] Images from Naturhistorisches Museum Wien (English/German)
• [http://worldwildlife.org/ecoregions/aa0123 Sulawesi Lowland Rain Forests Ecoregion]

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Haliphron

Category:Butterflies of Indonesia

Category:Endemic fauna of Indonesia

Category:Butterflies described in 1836

Category:Taxa named by Jean Baptiste Boisduval

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