Papilionidae
Baroniinae
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Ornithoptera
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aeacus
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Parnassiinae
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Species
Troides (Troides) aeacus (Felder & Felder, 1860)
aeacus Felder & Felder, 1860
Original Description
Ornithoptera aeacus Felder & Felder, 1860
Type specimen(s)
Status: Holotype
Specimen data: HT (♀, ex coll. Marchand, coll. C. & R. Felder)
Additional information: "The specimen is preserved in the British Museum (Nat. Hist.I collection and was examined by Rothschild" (Haugum & Low, 1985:327).
Current depository: BMNH, London
Type locality
Current country: India
Taxonomic history
Originally described as Ornithoptera aeacus Felder & Felder, 1860
Treated as a synonym of Papilio pompeus Cram., 1775 by Kirby (1871: 520), and listed as "Var. d". Treated as a species of Troides Hübner, 1816 by Rothschild (1895: 223). Treated as a species of Troides Hübner, [1819] (Troides Hübner, [1819]) by Munroe (1961:46), and by Hancock (1983: 47). Treated as a species of Troides Hübner, [1819] by Eliot (1978: 421).
Treated as a synonym of Papilio pompeus Cram., 1775 by Kirby (1871: 520), and listed as "Var. d". Treated as a species of Troides Hübner, 1816 by Rothschild (1895: 223). Treated as a species of Troides Hübner, [1819] (Troides Hübner, [1819]) by Munroe (1961:46), and by Hancock (1983: 47). Treated as a species of Troides Hübner, [1819] by Eliot (1978: 421).