Troidini
Troidini is a tribe of swallowtail butterflies that consists of some 135 species in 12 genera.
Members of this tribe feed on poisonous pipevine plants, typically of the genus Aristolochia, as larvae. As a result, they themselves are poisonous and unpalatable to predators, like the pipevine swallowtail, and are mimicked by other butterflies.Genera
The tribe consists of the following genera:
- Atrophaneura
- Battus
- Byasa
- Cressida
- Euryades
- Losaria
- Ornithoptera
- Pachliopta
- Parides
- Pharmacophagus
- Trogonoptera
- Troides
