Troides miranda

Miranda birdwing
T. m. neomiranda female, upperside
Conservation status
CITES Appendix II (CITES)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Papilionidae
Genus:	Troides
Species:	T. miranda
Binomial name
Troides miranda Butler, 1869

Troides miranda, the Miranda birdwing, is a birdwing butterfly that inhabits Borneo and Sumatra.

Troides miranda is a large butterfly with a wingspan ranging from 150 mm to 170 mm, with inconspicuously scalloped wings, black head and thorax and yellow abdomen. There is a sexual dimorphism of colour.

Males have black forewings with veins discreetly outlined in white in the postdiscal part, and yellow hindwings with black veins and a marginal border of black serrations.

The females, larger than the males, have brown forewings with white-edged veins, and brown hind wings with a small yellow central space veined with brown and a submarginal line of yellow chevrons.

Subspecies

• Troides miranda miranda North Borneo.
• Troides miranda hayamii Kobayashi, 1991 Southwest Borneo
• Troides miranda neomiranda (Fruhstorfer, 1903) Sumatra

Biology

The larva feeds on aristoloches- Aristolochia .

Related species

Troides miranda is a member of the Troides amphrysus species group. The members of this clade are:

• Troides amphrysus (Cramer, [1779])
• Troides andromache (Staudinger, 1892)
• Troides cuneifera (Oberthür, 1879)
• Troides miranda (Butler, 1869)

References

• Kurt Rumbucher,Béla von Knötgen and Oliver Schäffler, Knötgen 1999 Part 7, Papilionidae IV. Troides II., amphrysus-group in Erich Bauer and Thomas Frankenbach Eds. Butterflies of the World. Keltern: Goecke & Evers ISBN 978-3-931374-74-7.

External links

• Troides miranda at Ngypal