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:
* ''
Atrophaneura''
* ''
Battus''
* ''
Byasa''
* ''
Cressida''
* ''
Euryades''
* ''
Losaria''
* ''
Ornithoptera''
* ''
Pachliopta''
* ''
Parides''
* ''
Pharmacophagus''
* ''
Trogonoptera''
* ''
Troides''
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
HTML abstract* Scott, James A. (1986): ''The Butterflies of North America''. Stanford University Press.
References
Papilionidae
Butterfly tribes
Taxa named by George Talbot (entomologist)
Taxa described in 1939
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