Date Collected:

[date unknown] prior to 2013-12-31

Oceania: Papua New Guinea: Madang Province | Finisterre Mountains, Stephansort

Media type: image;   Entomology 210823

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Shows Cataloged Item: MCZ:Ent:210823 Ornithoptera paradisea

Current Identification
Ornithoptera paradisea Staudinger, 1893
Animalia Arthropoda Hexapoda Insecta Pterygota Lepidoptera Glossata Heteroneura Papilionoidea Papilionidae Papilioninae Troidini
Determiner: Rachel L. Hawkins SipeORCID iD icon on 2021-09-08
Nature of ID: revised taxonomy
Previous Identifications
Troides paradisea (Staudinger, 1893)
Animalia Arthropoda Hexapoda Insecta Pterygota Lepidoptera Glossata Heteroneura Papilionoidea Papilionidae Papilioninae Troidini
Determiner: [no agent data]
Nature of ID: legacy
Lepidoptera Linnaeus, 1758
Animalia Arthropoda Hexapoda Insecta Pterygota
Determiner: [no agent data]
Nature of ID: expert ID
Remarks: Verbatim: Ornithoptera paradisea Staudinger, 1893
Lepidoptera Linnaeus, 1758
Animalia Arthropoda Hexapoda Insecta Pterygota
Determiner: [no agent data]
Nature of ID: expert ID
Remarks: Verbatim: P. paradisea var. auriflua Fruh.

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  • additional number: Unknown:16

Part Condition Disposition Count
whole animal (pinned) unknown in collection 1 History

Attribute Value Determination On
sex Male By: Rachel L. Hawkins Sipe
collection A. G. Weeks Collection By: Rachel L. Hawkins Sipe
life stage adult By: Rachel L. Hawkins Sipe

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  • Label: "I sent you the one & only Orni. paradisea it was ever my good fortune to receive, Carl v. Hagen, who took this pair, was afterwards eaten by the Papuans & the only thing he left his wife was about 4 pairs of these & I believe Staudinger received them at any rate when I wanted a pair for a customer a year or two ago I wrote to him & as you will resell at a profit. I think you will agree you get them cheap for (virtually) £14-10-0."

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  • Ocean:
  • Oceania
  • Country:
  • Papua New Guinea
  • State/Province:
  • Madang Province
  • dwc:highergeographyID:
  • http://vocab.getty.edu/tgn/1000886 linked data icon
  • Specific Locality:
  • Finisterre Mountains, Stephansort
  • Verbatim Locality:
  • Stephansort; Finisterre Mts. N. Guinea
  • Georeference:
  • -5.4445260°, 145.744062° (Error radius: 1439m) By: Whit Farnum on 2020-11-25 (Source: GEOLocate)
  • Datum:
  • WGS84
  • Coordinates Entered As:
  • decimal degrees
  • Collecting Source:
  • unknown
  • Began Date / Ended Date:
  • 1700-01-01 / 2013-12-31
  • Verbatim Date:
  • [no verbatim date data]
  • Collector:
  • Curt von Hagen

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  • [Masked]

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