Trogonoptera

2. Genus Trogonoptera Rippon, 1890¹³⁾

Type species: Ornithoptera Brookiana Wallace, 1855

        (= Trogonoptera brookiana Wallace, 1855)

 

The genus Trogonoptera consists of the follow two species.

1) Trog. brookiana (Wallace, 1855) (10 subspecies, 1 subspecies (?))

2) Trog. trojana (Staudinger, 1889) (1 subspecies)

 

Trog. brookiana is found in Sumatra Island, Malay Peninsula, Kalimantan (=Borneo) Island and their adjacent islands, while Trog. trojana is distributed only in Palawan Island. [DCD 15]

Main characteristics of Genus Trogonoptera are as follows:

1. FW is very long, narrow and pointed, while HW is small and round.
2. Between both sexes wing shape and spotted pattern resemble each other.
3. HW cell is very small as compared with FW cell, but the V^7th of HW is long.
4. FW of ♂ without sex-brand, and green wedge-shaped patches along wing veins gradually become decrease in size from inner margin towards the apex.
5. Semi-translucent golden spot is absent from HW. Dorsum (=inner margin) of ♂ is folded over the wing surface, forming an anal pouch (scent-fold), in which brownish white odoriferous substance is contained.
6. Red hair tufts on neck and lateral thorax are abundant, with a slightly purplish gloss.
7. Abdomen is glossy brown.