Open AccessAN EXAMPLE OF NATURAL HYBRIDIZATION BETWEEN TROIDES OBLONGOMACULATUS PAPUENSIS WALLACE AND ORNITHOPTERA PRIAMUS POSEIDON DOUBLEDAY (LEPIDOPTERA: PAPILIONIDAE)
Author(s) -
SANDS D. P. A.,
SAWYER P. F.
Publication year - 1977
Publication title -
australian journal of entomology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1440-6055
pISSN - 1326-6756
DOI - 10.1111/j.1440-6055.1977.tb00066.x
Subject(s) - lepidoptera genitalia , biology , new guinea , zoology , natural (archaeology) , botany , ethnology , paleontology , sociology
Natural copulation between two taxonomically distant but obviously related birdwing butterflies. Ornithoptera priamus poseidon Doubleday and Troides oblongomaculatus papuensis Wallace is recorded from Papua New Guinea. The copulating pair was captured, and two male hybrid progeny were subsequently reared.