Sri Lankan birdwing facts for kids
Quick facts for kids Sri Lankan birdwing |
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Troides
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T. darsius
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| Troides darsius (Gray, 1852)
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Troides darsius, the Sri Lankan birdwing, is a species of birdwing butterfly found in Sri Lanka. It is the largest butterfly on the island.
Images for kids
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As Pompeoptera darsius in Robert Henry Fernando Rippon's Icones Ornithopterorum
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Plate from Frederic Moore's The Lepidoptera of Ceylon showing male and female imagines, larva and pupa
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