birdwing butterflies of this genus: a pair of Ornithoptera meridionalis was reported to have fetched USD 3,400 in Germany (Melisch and Schutz 2000). This species is listed on Appendix II of CITES.

TYPE LOCALITY: District of Wasior in the Wondiboi Mts (800m), Irian Jaya, Indonesia.

Ornithoptera tithonus (De Haan, 1841) In this species page Matsuka (2001) is followed. endemic species! Distribution. STATUS: An endemic species in Papua Indonesia. Locally rather common. Represented with six recognized subspecies. Details in gazetteer. EXTERNAL DISTRIBUTION: none. DATA SOURCES: KSP, NBC (ZMAN & RMNH). Literature (see below).

Ornithoptera tithonus, the Tithonus birdwing, is a species of birdwing butterfly found on New Guinea and other neighbouring islands. (Source: Wikipedia, '', http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ornithoptera_tithonus, CC BY-SA 3.0 .

Ornithoptera tithonus belongs to the family PAPILIONIDAE (Swallowtail butterflies) and is endemic to West Papua (previously Irian Jaya) the western half of New Guinea. Like all other birdwing butterflies, it is a strictly protected species.

Ornithoptera tithonus (de Haan, 1840) Taxonomy. class Insecta → subclass Pterygota → infraclass Neoptera → superorder Holometabola → order Lepidoptera → superfamily Papilionoidea → family Papilionidae → genus Ornithoptera → species Ornithoptera tithonus. Species name(s)

DISTRIBUTION: Indonesia: Irian Jaya; Wondiboi Mountains. TYPE LOCALITY: Wasior in Wondiboi Mts, 3000-4000feet, Irian Jaya, Indonesia.

Ornithoptera tithonus is a species of Lepidopteran which originates from New Guinea and can also be observed on neighboring Islands. The dorsal side of the female's wings wings are black, speckled with elliptical pale-white marks present on the …

Ornithoptera tithonus de Haan, 1840 in GBIF Secretariat (2023). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2024-12-18.

Ornithoptera have in innate variability that often makes division into subspecies meaningless. Of COURSE different colonies from different regions will have a slightly different phenotype as each represents a small puddle of the species gene pool.