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Rajah Brook's Birdwing (Trogonoptera brookiana)
Subject: | Rajah Brook's Birdwing (Trogonoptera brookiana)
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Rajah Brooke's birdwing (Trogonoptera brookiana) is a birdwing butterfly from the rainforests of the Thai-Malay Peninsula, Borneo, Natuna, Sumatra, and various small islands west of Sumatra (Banyak, Simeulue, Batu and Mentawai). The butterfly was named by the naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace in 1855, after James Brooke, the Rajah of Sarawak.
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Scientific Name: Trogonoptera brookiana (Wallace, 1855)
Synonyms: Troides brookianus, Ornithoptera brookiana
Common Names: Rajah Brooke's birdwing, Rajah Brooke's birdwing butterfly |
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