Troides criton

Criton Birdwing
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Troides criton male (above) and female
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Papilionidae
Genus:	Troides
Species:	T. criton
Binomial name
Troides criton Felder, 1860

The Criton Birdwing (Troides criton) is a birdwing butterfly found on the islands of Morotai, Halmahera, Bacan, Ternate and Obi in Indonesia.

Description

For terms see External morphology of Lepidoptera.

Male: The ground color of the fore wings is black. A large discal golden area has veins are black veins The underside is very similar.

Female: Troides criton is sexually dimorphic. In the female some of the veins are bordered by white colour. There is a chain of internervular black spots in the golden area. The underside is very similar.

In both sexes the abdomen is brown with a yellow underside.The head and thorax are blac and the underside of thorax has a red hair.

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Subspecies

• Troides criton criton Sulawesi, Moluccas, Morotai, Ternate, Tidore, Halmahera, Kasiruta, Sula Islands, Bacan.
• Troides criton critonides (Fruhstorfer, 1903) Obi Islands

Related species

Troides criton 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

• D'Abrera, B. (1975) Birdwing Butterflies of the World. Country Life Books, London.
• Collins, N.M., Morris, M.G., IUCN, 1985 Threatened Swallowtail Butterflies of the World: the IUCN Red Data Book (1985) IUCN pdf
• Felder, C. & R. Felder,1865-1875 Rhopalocera. In Reise der Osterreichischen Fregatte "Novara" um die Erde in den Jahren 1857, 1858, 1859 unter den Befehlen Commodore B. von Wullerstorf-Urbair. Zoologischer Theil. Zweiter Band:Abtheilung. Wien : vi + 548 + [1] pp in 5 parts, 140 pls.
• 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

• Butterfly corner Images from Naturhistorisches Museum Wien (English/German)
• Nagypal
• Halmahera Rain Forests Ecoregion
• Sulawesi Lowland Rain Forests