Troides haliphron is a birdwing

Birdwing

Birdwings are papilionid butterflies native to the Indian Subcontinent, mainland and archipelagic Southeast Asia and Australasia, and are usually regarded as belonging to three genera: Ornithoptera, Trogonoptera and Troides. Some authorities include additional genera...

 butterfly

Butterfly

A butterfly is a mainly day-flying insect of the order Lepidoptera, which includes the butterflies and moths. Like other holometabolous insects, the butterfly's life cycle consists of four parts: egg, larva, pupa and adult. Most species are diurnal. Butterflies have large, often brightly coloured...

 confined to Sulawesi

Sulawesi

Sulawesi is one of the four larger Sunda Islands of Indonesia and is situated between Borneo and the Maluku Islands. In Indonesia, only Sumatra, Borneo, and Papua are larger in territory, and only Java and Sumatra have larger Indonesian populations.- Etymology :The Portuguese were the first to...

 and the lesser Sunda Islands

Sunda Islands

The Sunda Islands are a group of islands that form part of the Malay archipelago.They are further divided into the Greater Sunda Islands and the Lesser Sunda Islands.-Administration:...

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Taxonomy

Troides staudingeri has at times been considered a subspecies

Subspecies

Subspecies in biological classification, is either a taxonomic rank subordinate to species, ora taxonomic unit in that rank . A subspecies cannot be recognized in isolation: a species will either be recognized as having no subspecies at all or two or more, never just one...

 of Troides haliphron.
Subspecies celebensis-the status of this taxon

Taxon

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 is uncertain. It has been placed within Troides criton

Troides criton

The Criton Birdwing is a birdwing butterfly found on the islands of Morotai, Halmahera, Bacan, Ternate and Obi in Indonesia.-References:*D'Abrera, B. Birdwing Butterflies of the World. Country Life Books, London....

, and Troides oblongomaculata. It may be a hybrid with Troides helena

Troides helena

The Common Birdwing, Troides helena , is a beautiful and large butterfly belonging to the Swallowtail . It is often found in the wildlife trade due to its popularity with butterfly collectors...

 hephaestus.

Subspecies

A number of other subspecies have been described from different islands. They are:

• T. h. celebensis - possibly central Celebes
  Sulawesi
  Sulawesi is one of the four larger Sunda Islands of Indonesia and is situated between Borneo and the Maluku Islands. In Indonesia, only Sumatra, Borneo, and Papua are larger in territory, and only Java and Sumatra have larger Indonesian populations.- Etymology :The Portuguese were the first to...
  
   (see Taxonomy)
• T. h. haliphron - South Celebes
• T. h. naias - Sumba
  Sumba
  Sumba is an island in eastern Indonesia, is one of the Lesser Sunda Islands, and is in the province of East Nusa Tenggara. Sumba has an area of 11,153 km², and the population was officially at 611,422 in 2005...
  
  
• T. h. socrates - Wetar
  Wetar
  The tropical island of Wetar belongs to the Indonesian province of Maluku and is the largest island of the Barat Daya Islands . It lies east of the Lesser Sunda Islands, which include nearby Alor and Timor, but it is politically part of the Maluku Islands...
  
   and Sumbawa
  Sumbawa
  Sumbawa is an Indonesian island, located in the middle of the Lesser Sunda Islands chain, with Lombok to the west, Flores to the east, and Sumba further to the southeast. It is in the province of West Nusa Tenggara....
  
   (probably a local form and not a subspecies)
• T. h. selayarensis - Selayar Islands

External links

• Troides haliphron at Ngypal