Troides plato

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Silver Birdwing
Male, upperside
Male, upperside
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Papilionidae
Subfamily: Papilioninae
Tribe: Troidini
Genus: Troides
Species: T. plato
Binomial name
Troides plato
Wallace, 1865

Troides plato is a birdwing butterfly endemic to Timor

Described forms are nychonia Jordan, 1908 (male),chitonia Jordan, 1908 (male) and delormei Le Moult, 1931 (female)