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Ornithoptera arruana = Ornithoptera priamus arruana (common green birdwing)
Subject: Ornithoptera arruana = Ornithoptera priamus arruana (common green birdwing)
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Ornithoptera arruana = Ornithoptera priamus arruana (common green birdwing)


Ornithoptera arruana
Date 1898
Source Icones ornithopterorum https://archive.org/stream/IconesornithoptIRipp#page/9/mode/1up
Author Robert Henry Fernando Rippon (died January 1917)
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:OrnithopteraArruanaRippon.jpg

Ornithoptera priamus, the common green birdwing, Cape York birdwing, Priam's birdwing, northern birdwing or New Guinea birdwing is a widespread species of birdwing butterfly found in the central and south Moluccas, New Guinea, Bismarck Archipelago, Solomon Islands, and north-east Australia. The specific name of Ornithoptera priamus, is named after Priam, the king of Troy during the Trojan War.
The subspecies Ornithoptera priamus arruana can be seen at Aru Islands, Indonesia.

Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Papilionidae
Genus: Ornithoptera
Species: Ornithoptera priamus (Linnaeus, 1758)

Cape york birdwing
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