Troides miranda
Species of butterfly
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Troides miranda, the Miranda birdwing, is a birdwing butterfly that inhabits Borneo and Sumatra.
| Miranda birdwing | |
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| T. m. neomiranda female, upperside | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Papilionidae |
| Genus: | Troides |
| Species: | T. miranda |
| Binomial name | |
| Troides miranda Butler, 1869 | |
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. [2]
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)
