Rajah Brooke's birdwing (Trogonoptera brookiana) Description
Kuala Woh, Tapah Hills, Perak, MALAYSIA
Date 17 April 2013, 15:22
Source Rajah Brooke's Birdwings (Trogonoptera brookiana albescens)
Author Bernard DUPONT from FRANCE https://www.flickr.com/people/65695019@N07
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Rajah_Brooke%27s_Birdwings_(Trogonoptera_brookiana_albescens)_(8733059392).jpg
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.
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Papilionidae
Genus: Trogonoptera
Species: Trogonoptera brookiana Wallace, 1855
Synonyms: Troides brookiana