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Ornithoptera richmondia figs. 1 and 2 The plate accompanied Gray's original description. The female Ornithoptera euphorion below (fig. 3) is much larger.. O. richmondia has never received an official IUCN classification (Collins & Morris, 1985), however Sands & Scott (1997) regarded it to satisfy the "vulnerable" category because of habitat loss across its former range.
All Ornithoptera species are found in the northern portion of the Australasian realm, east of Weber's line; the Moluccas, New Guinea, the Solomon Islands, and northeastern Australia. [5] An outlier is Ornithoptera richmondia , which may be found in far northeastern New South Wales , Australia in the southernmost area of its range; the ...
Ornithoptera is a genus of birdwing butterflies found in the northern portion of the Australasian realm, east of Weber's line; the Moluccas, New Guinea, the Solomon Islands, and northeastern Australia; except for Ornithoptera richmondia, which may be found in far northeastern New South Wales, Australia, therefore the southernmost distribution of birdwings.
The birdwings genus Ornithoptera comprises some of the largest and most beautiful butterflies in the World. The genus is distributed over southern parts of Asia to Australia.
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Ornithoptera alexandrae, the Queen Alexandra's birdwing, is the largest species of butterfly in the world, with females reaching wingspans slightly in excess of 25 to 28 cm (10 to 11 in). [ 4 ] [ 5 ] This birdwing is restricted to the forests of the Oro Province in eastern Papua New Guinea .
Cairns birdwing (Ornithoptera euphorion): Australia's largest endemic butterfly. Australia has more than 400 species of butterfly, the majority of which are continental species, and more than a dozen endemic species from remote islands administered by various Australian territorial governments.
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