Troides plato

Troides plato, the silver birdwing, is a birdwing butterfly endemic to Timor.

Described forms are nychonia Jordan, 1908 (male), chitonia Jordan, 1908 (male), and delormei Le Moult, 1931 (female).

Taxonomy
Previously considered to be a subspecies of haliphron, plato was raised to a full species by Haugum and Low on the basis of differences in the genitalia.

Biogeographic realm
Australasian realm.

Related species
Troides plato is a member of the Troides haliphron species group. The members of this clade are:


 * Troides haliphron (Boisduval, 1836)
 * Troides darsius (Gray, [1853])
 * Troides vandepolli (Snellen, 1890)
 * Troides criton (C. & R. Felder, 1860)
 * Troides riedeli (Kirsch, 1885)
 * Troides plato (Wallace, 1865)
 * Troides staudingeri (Röber, 1888)