Troidini
| Troidini | |
|---|---|
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| Ornithoptera goliath female | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Papilionidae |
| Subfamily: | Papilioninae |
| Tribe: | Troidini |
| Genera | |
Troidini is a tribe of swallowtail butterflies that consists of some 135 species in 12 genera.
Members of this tribe feed on poisonous pipevine plants, typically of the genus Aristolochia, as larvae. As a result, they themselves are poisonous and unpalatable to predators (Pinheiro 1986), and are mimicked by other butterflies (Scott 1986).
References
- Pinheiro, Carlos E. G. (1996): Palatability and escaping ability in Neotropical butterflies: tests with wild kingbirds (Tyrannus melancholicus, Tyrannidae). Biol. J. Linn. Soc. 59(4): 351–365. HTML abstract
- Scott, James A. (1986): The Butterflies of North America. Stanford University Press. ISBN 0-8047-1205-0
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