| Silver birdwing | |
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| Male, upperside | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Papilionidae |
| Genus: | Troides |
| Species: | T. plato |
| Binomial name | |
| Troides plato Wallace, 1865 | |
Troides plato, the silver birdwing, is a birdwing butterfly endemic to Timor. Troides plato is a butterfly with a large wingspan and scalloped hindwings. It exhibits sexual dimorphism.
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The males have black forewings with veins discreetly highlighted in white on the upper side, more broadly on the underside, and yellow hindwings veined and broadly edged in black.
The females have black forewings with veins largely outlined in white, except in the basal part, even more so on the reverse and the hindwings are yellow veined and broadly bordered in black, the border doubled by a submarginal line of large confluent black dots.
Described forms are nychonia Jordan, 1908 (male), chitonia Jordan, 1908 (male), and delormei Le Moult, 1931 (female).
