Ornithoptera priamus (common green birdwing) Ornithoptera priamus
Date [1907-1910]
Source Claude Augé (dir.) ; Adolphe Millot (ill.), Le Larousse pour tous : Nouveau dictionnaire encyclopédique, vol.2, Librairie Larousse, Paris, [1907-1910], p.367.
Author Adolphe Millot (1857–1921)
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3AOrnithoptera_priamus_%28Millot%29.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.
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Papilionidae
Genus: Ornithoptera
Species: Ornithoptera priamus (Linnaeus, 1758)
