Troides miranda, the Miranda birdwing, is a birdwing butterfly that inhabits Borneo and Sumatra.
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.Seitz, A., 1912-1927. Die Indo-Australien Tagfalter Grossschmetterlinge Erde 9
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, ) Troides andromache (Staudinger, 1892) Troides cuneifera (Oberthür, 1879) Troides miranda (Butler, 1869)
References
Kurt Rumbucher, Béla von Knötgen and Oliver Schäffler, Knötgen 1999 Part 7, Papilionidae IV. Troides II., amphrysus-group in Erich Bauer and Thomas Frankenbach Eds. Butterflies of the World. Keltern: Goecke & Evers .
External links
Troides miranda at Ngypal