Troidini
{{Short description|Tribe of butterflies}}
{{Automatic_taxobox
| name = Troidini
| image = Ornithoptera goliath samson MHNT dos.jpg
| image_caption = Ornithoptera goliath female
| image2 = Atrophaneura alcinous.jpg
| image2_caption = Byasa alcinous
| taxon = Troidini
| authority = Talbot, 1939
| subdivision_ranks = Genera
| subdivision = See text
}}
Troidini is a tribe of swallowtail butterflies that consists of some 135 species in 12 genera. Members of this tribe are superlatively large among butterflies (in terms of both wingspan and surface area) and are often strikingly coloured.
Genera
The tribe consists of the following genera:
Ecology
Members of this tribe feed on poisonous pipevine plants, typically of the genus Aristolochia, as larvae. As a result, they themselves are poisonous and unpalatable to predators (Pinheiro 1986), like the pipevine swallowtail, and are mimicked by other butterflies (Scott 1986).
= Examples of butterflies in Troidini =
File:Close wing mud puddling behaviour of Atrophaneura varuna (White, 1842) - Common Batwing.jpg|Atrophaneura varuna
File:Battus philenor on flower.jpg|Battus philenor
File:Close wing position of Byasa polyeuctes Doubleday, 1842 – Common Windmill WLB IMG 9310.jpg|Byasa polyeuctes
File:Cressida cressida 113273488.jpg|Cressida cressida
File:Euryades corethrus 61852602.jpg|Euryades corethrus
File:Yellow-bodied Club-tail (Losaria neptunus doris) (15617664232).jpg|Losaria neptunus
File:Cairns Birdwing on leaf. (9362644020).jpg|Ornithoptera euphorion
File:Common Rose Pachliopta aristolochiae by Vedant Kasambe 02.jpg|Pachliopta aristolochiae
File:Spear-winged cattleheart (Parides neophilus parianus) female.JPG|Parides neophilus
File:Vlinder, Reniala 1.JPG|Pharmacophagus antenor
File:Rajah Brooke's birdwing (Trogonoptera brookiana).jpg|Trogonoptera brookiana
File:Troides magellanus sonani.jpg|Troides magellanus
Citations
- Pinheiro, Carlos E. G. (1996): Palatability and escaping ability in Neotropical butterflies: tests with wild kingbirds (Tyrannus melancholicus, Tyrannidae). Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 59(4): 351–365. [http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/ap/bj/1996/00000059/00000004/art00069 HTML abstract]
- Scott, James A. (1986): The Butterflies of North America. Stanford University Press. {{ISBN|0-8047-1205-0}}
References
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Category:Taxa named by George Talbot (entomologist)
Category:Taxa described in 1939
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