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Queen Alexandra's birdwing
Queen Alexandra's Birdwing (''Ornithoptera alexandrae'') is the largest butterfly in the world, with females reaching wingspans slightly in excess of 25 cm (9.8 inches).〔Tropical Lepidoptera 3 (Suppl. 1): 33-60〕 It is restricted to the forests of the Oro Province in eastern Papua New Guinea.
The species is endangered, and is one of only three insects (the other two being butterflies as well) to be listed on Appendix I of CITES, making international trade illegal.〔(CITES appendices I, II and III ), official website〕
== History ==
The species was named by Walter Rothschild in 1907, in honour of Alexandra of Denmark. The first European to discover the species was Albert Stewart Meek in 1906, a collector employed by Walter Rothschild to collect natural history specimens from Papua New Guinea. Although the first specimen was taken with the aid of a small shotgun, Meek soon discovered the early stages and bred out most of the first specimens.
Though most authorities now classify this species in the genus ''Ornithoptera'', it has formerly been placed in the genus ''Troides'' or the now defunct genus ''Aethoptera''. In 2001 the lepidopterist Gilles Deslisle proposed placing it in its own subgenus (which some writers have treated as a genus); he originally proposed the name ''Zeunera'', but this is a junior homonym (with ''Zeunera'' Piton 1936 ()), and his replacement is ''Straatmana''.〔Deslisle, G. (2007) "Straatmana : a remplacement name for the subgenus Zeunera Deslisle 2001 (Lep. Papilionidae)" ''Lambillionea'' (Brussels) N° 2 vol 1 & 2, June 2007, p. 238〕
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