Belongs within: Papilioninae.
Contains: Parides.
The Troidini are a predominantly tropical group of butterflies, most abundant in Central and South American lowland forests and the Indo-Australian region. Larvae feedi almost exclusively on species of Aristolochia and sequester toxins from these plants (Silva-Brandão et al. 2005). Members include some of the world’s largest butterflies in the genus Ornithoptera. The Neotropical genus Battus is sister to the rest of the tribe and differs from other genera in its gregarious larvae (Silva-Brandão et al. 2005).
Troidini
|--Battus [Battina]S-BF05
| |--+--B. philenor (Linnaeus 1771)S-BF05
| | | |--B. p. philenorS72
| | | `--B. p. hirsutaS72
| | `--B. polydamas (Linnaeus 1758)S-BF05
| `--+--B. polystictus (Butler 1874)S-BF05
| `--+--B. belus (Cramer 1777)S-BF05 [incl. B. belus var. cochabamba (Weeks 1901)S55]
| `--B. crassus (Cramer 1777)S-BF05
`--TroidinaS-BF05
| i. s.: Trogonoptera brookianaS-BF05, S72
| |--T. b. brookianaS72
| `--T. b. albescensS72
|--Pharmacophagus Haase 1892J03, B00
`--+--+--Losaria neptunus (Guérin-Méneville 1840) [=Pachliopta neptunus]S-BF05
| |--Byasa alcinous (Klug 1836) [=Atrophaneura alcinous]S-BF05
| `--Pachliopta Reakirt 1865J03, B00
| |--P. liris (Godart 1819)B12
| |--P. paluV-WF03
| `--P. polydorus (Linnaeus 1763) [=Atrophaneura polydorus]B00
| |--P. p. polydorusB00
| `--P. p. queenslandicus (Rothschild 1895)B00 [=Atrophaneura polydorus queenslandicusS91]
`--+--+--Troides Hübner 1819S-BF05, B00
| | `--T. helena (Linnaeus 1758)S-BF05
| `--Ornithoptera Boisduval 1832J03, B00
| |--O. goliathJ03
| |--O. priamus (Linnaeus 1758) [=Troides priamus]B00
| | |--O. p. priamusB00
| | |--O. p. caelestis (Rothschild 1898)B00
| | |--O. p. euphorion (Gray 1853)B00
| | |--O. p. macalpinei (Moulds 1974)B00
| | |--O. p. poseidon (Doubleday 1847)B00
| | |--O. p. pronomus (Gray 1853)B00
| | `--O. p. urvillianus (Guérin-Méneville 1830)B00
| `--O. richmondia (Gray 1853) [=O. priamus richmondia, Troides richmondia]B00
`--+--+--+--Euryades corethrus (Boisduval 1836)S-BF05
| | `--Cressida Swainson 1832J03, B00
| | `--C. cressida (Fabricius 1775) [incl. C. cressida cassandra (Waterhouse & Lyell 1914)]B00
| `--Atrophaneura Reakirt 1865J03, B00 [incl. PanosmiaS-BF05]
| |--A. coonS72
| | |--A. c. coonS72
| | `--A. c. doubledayiS72
| |--A. drucei (Butler 1874)S55
| |--A. lysander (Cramer 1775)S55
| |--A. neophilus [incl. A. neophilus var. consus (Rothschild & Jordan 1906)]S55
| |--A. noxS72
| | |--A. n. noxS72
| | `--A. n. erebusS72
| `--A. sesostris (Cramer 1779)S55
`--ParidesS-BF05
*Type species of generic name indicated
References
[B00] Braby, M. F. 2000. Butterflies of Australia: their identification, biology and distribution vol. 1. CSIRO Publishing: Collingwood (Victoria).
[B12] Braby, M. F. 2012. The butterflies of El Questro Wilderness Park, with remarks on the taxonomy of the Kimberley fauna, Australia. Records of the Western Australian Museum 27 (2): 161–175.
[J03] Jong, R. de. 2003. Are there butterflies with Gondwanan ancestry in the Australian region? Invertebrate Systematics 17: 143–156.
[S91] Sankowsky, G. 1991. New food plants for some Queensland butterflies. Australian Entomological Magazine 18 (1): 9–19.
[S55] Schröder, H. 1955. Eine Falter-Ausbeute aus dem westlichen Bolivien. (Ins. Lepid. Rhopal.) Senckenbergiana Biologica 36: 329–338.
[S72] Shields, O. 1972. Flower visitation records for butterflies (Lepidoptera). Pan-Pacific Entomologist 48 (3): 189–203.
[S-BF05] Silva-Brandão, K. L., A. V. L. Freitas, A. V. Z. Brower & V. N. Solferini. 2005. Phylogenetic relationships of the New World Troidini swallowtails (Lepidoptera: Papilionidae) based on COI, COII, and EF-1α genes. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 36: 468–483.
[V-WF03] Vane-Wright, R. I., & H. Fermon. 2003. Taxonomy and identification of Lohora Moore (Lepidoptera: Satyrinae), the Sulawesi bush browns. Invertebrate Systematics 17: 129–141.