The largest butterfly in the world | Queen Alexandra's Birdwing

 The largest butterfly in the world | Queen Alexandra's Birdwing

Ornithoptera alexandrae, the Queen Alexandra's birdwing, is the most important species of butterfly withinside the world, with women accomplishing wingspans barely in extra of 25 cm to twenty-eight cm (9.eight inches to eleven inches). This birdwing is constrained to the forests of the Oro Province in jap Papua New Guinea.

The species became observed in 1906 through Albert Stewart Meek, a collector hired through Walter Rothschild to accumulate herbal records specimens from New Guinea. In the subsequent year, Rothschild named the species in honour of Alexandra of Denmark. Although the primary specimen became all for the resource of a small shotgun, Meek quickly observed the early tiers and bred out maximum of the primary specimens.

Though maximum government now classify this species withinside the genus Ornithoptera, it has previously been located withinside the genus Troides or the now defunct genus Aethoptera. In 2001 the lepidopterist Gilles Deslisle proposed setting it in its very own subgenus (which a few writers have handled as a genus); he in the beginning proposed the call Zeunera, however that is a junior homonym (with Zeunera Piton 1936 [Orthoptera]), and his substitute is Straatmana.