Troides prattorum

Buru opalescent birdwing
Troides prattorum plate by A.E.Pratt which accompanied the original description
Conservation status
Vulnerable (IUCN 2.3)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Papilionidae
Genus:	Troides
Species:	T. prattorum
Binomial name
Troides prattorum (Joicey & Talbot,1922)

Troides prattorum, the Buru Opalescent Birdwing, is a species of butterfly in the family Papilionidae. It is endemic to Buru in the Maluku Islands of Indonesia.

It is commercially bred, but supplies of this butterfly are sporadic, so it is still very rare in collections.^[1]

Related species[]

Troides prattorum is a member of the Troides aeacus species group. The members of this clade are:

• Troides aeacus C. & R. Felder, 1860
• Troides magellanus (C. & R. Felder, 1862)
• Troides minos (Cramer, [1779])
• Troides rhadamantus (Lucas, 1835)
• Troides dohertyi (Rippon, 1893)
• Troides prattorum (Joicey & Talbot, 1922)

References[]

• Gimenez Dixon, M. 1996. Troides prattorum. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 31 July 2007.
• ARKive Photos and more information
• Ohya, Takashi,1980) Troides prattorum. Rhopalocerists' Magazine 4(4):5-10, plate.
• Kurt Rumbucher; Béla von Knötgen, 1999 Part.6, Papilionidae. 3, Troides. 1 aeacus- group in Erich Bauer and Thomas Frankenbach Eds. Butterflies of the World Keltern: Goecke & Evers 1999. ISBN 978-3-931374-72-3

External links[]

Wikispecies has information related to Troides prattorum.

• Butterflycorner Images from Naturhistorisches Museum Wien (English/German)
• Tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests. Buru Ecoregion

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