Troidini is a tribe of
swallowtail butterflies
Swallowtail butterflies are large, colorful Butterfly, butterflies in the family Papilionidae, and include over 550 species. Though the majority are tropical, members of the family inhabit every continent except Antarctica. The family includes ...
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:
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Atrophaneura
Red-bodied swallowtails or ruby swallowtail ( due to the color ) are butterflies in the swallowtail family, that belong to the genera ''Atrophaneura'', ''Byasa'', ''Losaria'', or ''Pachliopta''. They are generally found in Asia (Indomalayan r ...
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Battus''
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Byasa
Red-bodied swallowtails or ruby swallowtail ( due to the color ) are butterflies in the swallowtail family, that belong to the genera ''Atrophaneura'', ''Byasa'', ''Losaria'', or ''Pachliopta''. They are generally found in Asia ( Indomalayan ...
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Cressida
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Euryades''
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Losaria
Red-bodied swallowtails or ruby swallowtail ( due to the color ) are butterflies in the swallowtail family, that belong to the genera ''Atrophaneura'', ''Byasa'', ''Losaria'', or ''Pachliopta''. They are generally found in Asia ( Indomalayan ...
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Ornithoptera
''Ornithoptera'' is a genus of birdwing butterflies found in the northern portion of the Australasian realm, east of Weber's line; the Moluccas, New Guinea, the Solomon Islands, and northeastern Australia. Except for ''Ornithoptera richmondia'' ...
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Pachliopta
Red-bodied swallowtails or ruby swallowtail ( due to the color ) are butterflies in the swallowtail family, that belong to the genera ''Atrophaneura'', ''Byasa'', ''Losaria'', or ''Pachliopta''. They are generally found in Asia ( Indomalayan ...
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Parides
''Parides'', commonly called cattlehearts, is a genus of swallowtail butterflies in the family Papilionidae. They are found in the Americas (Neotropical realm).
Species
Listed alphabetically within groups according to Möhn ''et al.'', with anno ...
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Pharmacophagus''
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Trogonoptera''
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Troides
''Troides'' is a genus of birdwing butterflies, comprising species found in the Indian subcontinent, southeast Asia, and Oceania.
Species
Twenty species are recognized:
: subgenus: ''Ripponia''
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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
predator
Predation is a biological interaction where one organism, the predator, kills and eats another organism, its prey. It is one of a family of common feeding behaviours that includes parasitism and micropredation (which usually do not kill th ...
s (Pinheiro 1986), like the
pipevine swallowtail
''Battus philenor'', the pipevine swallowtail or blue swallowtail, Retrieved April 19, 2018. is a swallowtail butterfly found in North America and Central America. This butterfly is black with iridescent-blue hindwings. They are found in many di ...
, and are
mimic
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ked 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
The ''Biological Journal of the Linnean Society'' is a direct descendant of the oldest biological journal in the world, the ''Transactions of the Linnean Society''. It succeeded the earlier title in 1969. The journal specializes in evolution, and ...
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HTML abstract* Scott, James A. (1986): ''The Butterflies of North America''. Stanford University Press.
References
Papilionidae
Butterfly tribes
Taxa named by George Talbot (entomologist)
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