Troides plato
{{Short description|Species of butterfly}}
{{Speciesbox
| name = Silver birdwing
| image = Troides plato clean.jpg
| image_caption = Male, upperside
| status = CITES_A2
| status_system = CITES
| status_ref = {{Cite web|title=Appendices {{!}} CITES|url=https://cites.org/eng/app/appendices.php|access-date=2022-01-14|website=cites.org}}
| taxon = Troides plato
| authority = Wallace, 1865
}}
Troides plato, the silver birdwing, is a birdwing butterfly endemic to Timor.
Described forms are nychonia Jordan, 1908 (male), chitonia Jordan, 1908 (male), and delormei Le Moult, 1931 (female).
Taxonomy
Previously considered to be a subspecies of haliphron, plato was raised to a full species by Haugum and Low on the basis of differences in the genitalia.
Biogeographic realm
Related species
Troides plato 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)
References
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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}}
- 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}}
External links
{{Commons|Troides plato}}
{{Wikispecies|Troides plato}}
- [http://www.nagypal.net/images/zzplato.htm Troides plato at Nagypal]
- [http://worldwildlife.org/ecoregions/aa0204 Timor and Wetar Deciduous Forests]
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Category:Butterflies of Indonesia
Category:Butterflies described in 1865
Category:Taxa named by Alfred Russel Wallace
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