Queen Alexandra's birdwing
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Ornithoptera alexandrae, the Queen Alexandra's birdwing, is the largest species of butterfly in the world, with females reaching wingspans slightly in excess of 25 to 28 cm. This birdwing is restricte
Pararistolochia (some species were formerly Aristolochia)
A lateral photograph of the Queen Alexandra Birdwing Butterfly caterpillar.
A dorsal photograph of the Holotype female of Queen Alexandra's Birdwing Butterfly.
Raising the flagship profile with mounted specimens, collected or bred when the insect was not endangered.
Parides burchellanus
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Parides burchellanus is a species of swallowtail butterfly. It is endemic to Brazil. It is one of only two butterflies on the IUCN's 100 Most Endangered Species in the World, the other being Actinote
Queen Alexandra's birdwing
…be listed on Appendix I of CITES, making commercial international trade illegal. The other three insects listed are butterflies as well. They are the Parides burchellanus, Papilio homerus, Papilio chikae chikae (plus subspecies chikae hermeli). The species was discovered in 1906 by Albert Stewart Meek, a collector employed…
Trans Ent Soc Lond 1872Plate 3 Parides burchellanus
in Seitz
River vegetation in the Cerrado