| Riedel's birdwing | |
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| Conservation status | |
 Near Threatened (IUCN 3.1) | |
| CITES Appendix II (CITES) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Papilionidae |
| Genus: | Troides |
| Species: | T. riedeli |
| Binomial name | |
| Troides riedeli Kirsch, 1885 | |
Troides riedeli, or Riedel's birdwing, is a birdwing butterfly endemic to the Tanimbar Islands, part of the Maluku Islands archipelago in Indonesia.
Very little is known of the life history and distribution.
Biogeographic realm
Related species
Troides riedeli is a member of the Troides haliphron species group. The members of this clade are:
- Troides haliphron (Boisduval, 1836)
- Troides darsius (Gray, )
- Troides vandepolli (Snellen, 1890)
- Troides criton (C. & R. Felder, 1860)
- Troides riedeli (Kirsch, 1885)
- Troides plato (Wallace, 1865)
- Troides staudingeri (Röber, 1888)
References
- "Appendices | CITES". cites.org. Retrieved 2022-01-14.
- Collins, N. Mark; Morris, Michael G. (1985). Threatened Swallowtail Butterflies of the World: The IUCN Red Data Book. Gland & Cambridge: IUCN. ISBN 978-2-88032-603-6 – via Biodiversity Heritage Library.
- Kurt Rumbucher and Oliver Schäffler (2004). Part 19, Papilionidae X. Troides III. in Erich Bauer and Thomas Frankenbach Eds. Butterflies of the World. Keltern: Goecke & Evers ISBN 978-3-937783-02-4
- Tsukada, E. and Nishiyama, Y. (1982). Butterflies of the South East Asian Islands. Vol. I Papilionidae. (transl. K. Morishita). Plapac Co. Ltd., Tokyo. 457 pp.
External links
- Troides riedeli at Nagypal
- Butterflycorner Images from Naturhistorisches Museum Wien (English/German)
- Banda Sea Islands Moist Deciduous Forests
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| Trogonoptera | |
| Troides | |
| Ornithoptera | |
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| Troides riedeli | |
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