Species record · No. 739 · Papilionidae

Butterfly of Paradise

Scientific name

Ornithoptera paradisea

Author & year

Staudinger, 1893

Classification

Animalia, Arthropoda, Insecta, Lepidoptera, Papilionoidea, Papilionidae, Papilioninae, Ornithoptera

Distribution

Papua New Guinea, Indonesia

IUCN status

NT Near Threatened

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