Troides staudingeri

staudingeri Rob. Male: forewing similar to that of iris, beneath with purer white stripes; hindwing almost as in naias, but always with 6 gold discal spots round the cell and the cell-spot more transversely truncate; the harpe similar to that of iris, almost symmetrical, whilst in the other haliphron-forms,

it is almost hook-shaped. Female with broader vein-streaks on the forewing than in iris [ssp. (below)]; on the hindwing in addition to the cell-spot 6 gold spots, of which the first and last are much larger than in iris and ariadne [ssp. (below)] ; the median veins at least beneath accompanied by yellow-grey stripes, similar stripes or small submarginal spots also often on the radials. Collar and breast in male and female red. Loeang, Dammer and Babber.Jordan, K. in Seitz, A.(1908).The Macrolepidoptera of the World 9: The Rhopalocera of the Indo-Australian faunal region . Papilionidae 11-118.{{PD-notice}}

• T. s. staudingeri (Sermata, Luang, Babar)
• T. s. iris (Röber, 1888) (Leti Group)
• T. s. ariadne Rothschild, 1908 (Islands of Romang Strait)
• T. s. heptanonius Fruhstorfer, 1913 (Damar Island)
• T. s. ikarus Fruhstorfer, 1904 (Tanimbar, Selaru, Yamdena, Larat) The male not different from staudingeri, the vein-stripes of the forewing beneath and also the edging of the cell, however, are longer and broader in some specimens. This grey-white scaling in the female apparently always more extended than in staudingeri. Selaru, Timor Laut Islands.
• T. s. rikyu Arima & Morimoto, 1991 (Teun, Nila, Serua)

Like T. haliphron, T. staudingeri is a lowland species.

Australasian realm.

The specific name staudingeri honours the German entomologist Otto Staudinger.

Previously considered to be a subspecies of haliphron, staudingeri was raised to a full species by Haugum and Low on the basis of differences in the genitali. This was accepted by Hancock.

Troides staudingeri 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.
• Hancock, D.L. (1983). Classification of the Papilionidae (Lepidoptera): a phylogenetic approach. Smithersia 2: 1-48.
• 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}}

Other literature at Troides

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• [http://www.nagypal.net/ttstaudi.htm The World of Birdwing Butterflies]
• [http://www.boldsystems.org/index.php/Taxbrowser_Taxonpage?taxid=71575 BOLD] Consortium for the Barcode of Life images, molecular information.
• [http://worldwildlife.org/ecoregions/aa0204 Timor and Wetar Deciduous Forests Ecoregion]

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staudingeri

Category:Butterflies of Indonesia

Category:Endemic fauna of Indonesia

Category:Fauna of the Barat Daya Islands

Category:Butterflies described in 1888

Category:Taxa named by Julius Röber

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