Malaysia - Raja Brooke's Birdwing Butterfly

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Rajah Brooke's Birdwing found in Mulu National Park. Thanks to Liz of Miri, Sarawak, Malaysia.





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Raja Brooke's Birdwing Trogonoptera brookiana is a distinctive black and electric-green birdwing butterfly from the rainforests in the Thai-Malay Peninsula, Borneo, Natuna, Sumatra, and various small islands west of Sumatra (Banyak, Simeulue, Batu and Mentawai). The butterfly was named by the naturalist Alfred R. Wallace in 1855, after James Brooke, the Rajah of Sarawak.






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